You swipe past what you want to know

Something about how bread rises, or why old buildings lean, or what makes a certain shade of blue.

For half a second you want to keep reading. Then you swipe past because the dishwasher is waiting, or the email, or the next thing on the list.

You used to follow those threads. You used to look things up for the pleasure of finding out.

An evening spent reading about something that had nothing to do with your job or your family. A word you did not recognize, looked up before the sentence was finished.

Curiosity was not a separate activity you scheduled. It ran underneath everything, a current that made ordinary hours interesting.

Then your brain filled with other people’s schedules, questions, needs. All the mental energy you used to spend wondering went toward coordinating, remembering, managing.

A mind that full rarely switches off at bedtime either. It keeps coordinating long after the lights are out.

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By the time everyone else’s questions were answered, yours had nowhere to go. Not because you stopped being curious, but because curiosity takes space, and yours was full.

Now a curious thought feels like a detour you cannot afford.

What you miss is the feeling itself. Being drawn toward a question that produces nothing and asks for nothing and exists for no reason except that you wanted to follow it.

It is the thinking cousin of the play you gave up, something done for no reason except that you wanted to.

Today, the next time a question catches you, do not let it pass. Give it ten minutes.

Look it up, or sit with the question, or pull a book from a shelf. Let yourself not know something and enjoy the finding out.

The question can be small and entirely useless. The only thing that matters is that it is yours.

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that in 1935, in an essay defending a quality some people still found unbecoming in a woman.

See you tomorrow.

If someone came to mind while you were reading this, send her these letters. The Permission Slips are yours when she stays.