17 December 2009

curiosity drives me... cum barba...

so... one thing that really defines my personality is that i'm curious... i really like learning things, getting inside it and figuring out how it ticks... i'm pretty sure that's why i can talk to anyone... it might not be anything substantial, but i can talk to them. my teachers in elementary school used to have to make me sit alone in class, which never really worked because i would often talk to myself...

so i love facts and things of this sort... if you ever watch TV there's a jack daniel's commercial that tells the story of the No. 7 on the bottle, well.. it doesn't really... it actually talks about how no one knows what it's really for, the problem with this commercial is it is ineffective, i don't want to drink, i want to resurrect Jack Daniels and ask him, be like, "BRO, u gotta tell me, i'll never tell anyone, ever, honest." and then bludgeon him until i get the information i want.

you can watch that commercial here.

the thing is this, i love facts, tid-bits and ideas... i think in pictures and graphs and lines and colours, sometimes i outline my thoughts before i speak, other times, they outline seems to pop into place while i'm talking, it's amazing... but people say "curiosity killed the cat" and i've always wondered, "why? why do cats die from curiosity? do they eat things they shouldn't? do they get into places they shouldn't? why cats?" then i get on google and find out that it was originally written in the play Every Man in His Humor by Ben Johnson (i actually just looked that up) and that Shakespeare also says something similar to it... but the thing i this... people should be more curious, why are things the way they are? what makes something work? is there anything i can do to make the world a better place?

the answer to that third one is simple. yes. i'm not going to give you some generic answer, but listen here, everyone can make the world a phenomenal place, they just have to be curious as to how... now go explore, do something, be someone to another individual and remember, even if curiosity killed the cat, the cat died happy.

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