Welcome your inner curiosity.
Being curious is at our very essence …
My sweet little kitty, Jethro, was recently diagnosed with diabetes. As I have watched him struggle, not feeling well and waiting for the insulin to start working in his system, I have missed his curious spirit. It’s made me wonder and think about where the phrase “Curiosity killed the cat” came from. This messaging from society tells us to not be curious…it will kill you. Yikes! That’s a scary message to hear.
My son sometimes watches and reads Curious George and really enjoys it. I, on the other hand, do not love it quite so much. “George was a good little monkey, but sometimes he gets curious” - aka bad. You are a good little monkey, cat, person, if you can stamp out your curiosity, put your head down and keep going through life the way “everybody else” does or the way you’re “supposed” to.
We are literally sending a message to our society to not be curious. The very thing that has allowed us to invent anything, create anything, learn anything, love anything. Being curious is at our very essence, yet the person or group that came up with this phrase and messaging was filled with fear at what curiosity can do. Perhaps theirs was stamped out as a child, as it was for so many of us (not to our parent’s fault, they did the best they could with the information they had at the time, and their curiosity was probably stamped out too! - aka generational trauma patterns, one of my favorite topics😝) and never found it again as adults.
What if we could all develop and hone our curiosity for the power of good? To save our planet, heal our lives, heal our hearts and minds, and love one another. Without curiosity, the cat is already half dead, and I don’t know about you but I would rather have a dead cat than a cat with a dead spirit.
As Jethro’s spirit and curiosity returns, I will take the time to be curious about my own life and my own patterns, which winter is such a good time of year for. Where can I direct my curiosity in my inner investigation that will be of the most benefit to me? What behaviors keep coming up that I don’t need any longer, and how can I be curious about why they are there and what I can do to help shift them? Where can I allow others in my life to be more curious about me, and to be open to that? Where can I allow curiosity and play to come into my time with my child, and how can I observe that in him and help support it?
These are some of the questions I ask, and I invite the curiosity in with open arms. Amazing what a diabetic cat can do for you huh? 😘
XO Mary