Curiosity

Curiosity is a natural emotional inquisitive behavior of living beings that engenders exploration, investigation, and learning. Curiosity develops into human reason; a complex enlightened way of human thinking which is systematic and conscious. Curiosity combined with the ability to think in an abstract way leads to mimesis, fantasy and imagination. Despite the diverse advantages in having a strong will of mind and curiosity; being too curious can be inadvertently dangerous…

It was a beautiful frosty blistering cold Monday morning three days after Christmas and a soft white blanket of white snow covered all the shrubbery and tree tops as far as the eye can see. Being youthful; full of testosterone and energy my two best friends and I decided to go on a daring morning run thought out the neighborhood inadequately geared in only shorts and a thin t-shirt. If I had only known the dangerous and life threatening adventure that lurked before us I might have dressed more appropriately for the occasion.

I remember so vividly the life and motivation that filled us; we greeted every passing neighbor with a smile and laughed out loud as we challenged the element of cold. We planned to make just a quick round around the block until our adventurous curiosity drifted us over toward the newly frozen ice skating pond over one mile away from my house in the middle of a park. As we approached the pond my intuition was screaming at me to turn around and run the other way as fast as possible, but against better judgment I fell into the grasp of peer pressure and found myself sliding back and forth on the ice just moments later.

I remember quickly glancing at my watch and noting that we have been out side for forty-five minutes. Having just notice how cold my fingers and toes were I told my friends that we should double back home in fear of frostbite settling in. They both looked at me and nodded their head in agreement. As we set forth to mount off the ice I noticed a quick movement under the ice. After a second glance I noticed that it was a relatively large group of fish. My friends rushed over to where I was when they saw me wiping the snow off the ice. At that time I was amazed at how large the fish were and was very conscious of why they had traveled to the top. The fish were very timid and were very scared at the sight of us; we spread out along the pond and chased them to every corner.

One of my friends mentioned that he was worried about how the ice looked and we then again decided to regroup and to head once again back home. As we came closer together, I distinctively noted how dark blue and red all our faces were. I remember out of fear and terror the whining sound of the ice as we came closer and closer together.

The ice seemed to scream as if it was in pain and a very worried look shot across all our faces. We all knew at that time we had over stayed our welcome. As one of my friends lifted his foot to take another step the ice seemed to sink very slowly where he had been standing. My other friend and I could only watch in complete shock as he was slowly submerging helplessly into the freezing cold bath like a stone statue. My friend who was sinking was in such shock from