The Pursuit of Wonder

We no longer look at anything with wonder. With awe. The kind that baffles the mind. Leaves us confused. Clueless. Eternally curious. We are not pursuing anything that quickens our heartbeat. That makes us lose track of time. That sends us down the rabbit hole. We know nothing that makes us talk endlessly. Pursuing wonder matters. You have to surprise yourself once in a while. You tend toward hubris otherwise. You start believing that the longer you live, the wiser you become. That is the greatest mistake we inherited from our parents. Who inherited it from theirs. The cycle has been perpetually wrong. And nobody is correcting it. The truly wise have no business thinking about wisdom. It is precisely the absence of self-regard that makes someone wise. We need to pursue a subject that unsettles the mind. Without seeking the purpose behind the learning. Not everything is going to be useful. It might turn out to be. But that is not the point. You need a sense of wonder so you know the…