I stopped fighting my curiosity a long time ago. If it pulls me somewhere, it is worth going there, or at least taking a look.
Why?
Like fear, curiosity never arises out of nowhere and always works in my favor. The catch is that at first I cannot tell where it is leading me, or more importantly, why. The payoff comes later.
Insights emerge along the way. Curiosity has sharply redirected my career more than once. A year ago I got suddenly obsessed with the topic of sacrifice. My worldview collapsed and reassembled itself in a new way.
Right now, I am absorbed in the history of religions. Paleolithic hunters, the Sumerian-Akkadian synthesis, the orgiastic cult of Dionysus, Judaism, Islam... The rabbit hole has no bottom. Why am I interested in all this? I cannot say.
That said, the absence of a clear purpose doesn't stop me from digging deeper
An oak grove grows from an acorn — but the acorn doesn't need to know that.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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