I possess curiosity about the world. I am curious about almost every area of life.
Which parts exactly? From broadly defined: religion through alchemy, science, culture, art (paintings, music, movies, photography, literature), philosophy, fantasy, and sports to psychology. I know much about everything mentioned above; I learned thanks to reading books. Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Stanislaw Lem’s novels are the ones that impressed me the most. On the other hand, Taschen’s books provided me with a lot of profound knowledge about all aspects mentioned at the beginning of this post.
Undoubtedly, all the above books broadened my knowledge and curiosity about the world to the new, undiscovered territories.
But, as usual, there is another side to the issue. At the same time, while learning new things by myself, I am aware that my abilities, time, or perhaps health issues will not allow me to know enough about everything written above. It is a kind of cognitive tragedy.
The core of this tragedy is all limitations in the ability to understand the reality that surrounds us. We’ll never be perfect. Thus, we will never understand certain phenomena and processes, e.g., in the Universe. Even if I would read all of Taschen’s books and all editions of other writers I want to learn (e.g., Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, or Thomas Mann), it won’t be enough to get knowledge about broadly defined life. The curiosity about the world would yet exist in my mind and soul.
A tragedy is also the fact that if I would read ALL the things that humankind wrote throughout its history, we still never get to know an answer to many riddles.
Also, we will never be able to solve some mysteries (e.g., why humankind appeared in this world). A cognitive tragedy was and will be with all the people until the world’s end.
Does it mean we should give up learning and developing our civilization? Is that mean that curiosity about the world is something terrible? Should we give up all our efforts to solve mysteries?
Undoubtedly you could ask, my Dear Friend. No. I believe that curiosity about the world is placed in our DNA code. Humans possess an eternal desire to discover new things. It is our beautiful feature. The interest of the world lives in most of us. It moves humankind ahead.
Nevertheless, I know we have limited powers to understand many issues surrounding us.
