THAT'S CURIOUS

We all know the old saying, "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."  Well, curiosity is nothing to be avoided or feared.  In Scouts, we encourage boys to be curious about everything.  This is part of the merit badge program.  The Scouts are encouraged to earn as many badges as they can during their Scouting years.  This allows them to taste many different experiences, studies, and disciplines.  Once they have looked into and took part in these activities, it sparks their curiosity into wanting more of some and less of others.

                Here is a danger as we grow older.  Somehow we get the idea that we are too grown up to be curious and in fact, curiosity is something to be feared and dismissed from our lives.  When that happens, we enter into the famous rut that adults complain so much about.  A rut that we dig ourselves and that simply becomes a grave with the ends knocked out.

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

– Walt Disney

(1901-1966)

Cartoonist/Businessman

                Success-minded people are those who not only still have the ability to be curious about life, but they cultivate it in themselves.  They know that it is by seeking the unknown and making new discoveries that they will find their success - and possibly change the world.  Every great invention and discovery came from a curious person.  Someone who kept looking when others stopped; who kept asking questions when others just accepted answers.

                Curious people are people who are alive and vibrant.  They are willing to take a risk in order to make a discovery.  You have no idea how amazing you can be unless you are willing to step out and discover something new.  You were created to be great.  To do what others will not do.  You are to be extraordinary.  After all, extraordinary people are only ordinary people who dear do extraordinary things.

                What are you curious about?  Take only one thing and find out everything you can about it.  You will amaze yourself on how much you can know and believe me, once you get bitten by the curious bug, you will never be the same again.  As former Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."

You matter!  You matter to the world and to yourself.  Remember to be your best, love God, have good manners, achieve the unknown and change your world.

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