Isaac Newton’s Apple... Where Art Thou?

Move over Isaac Newton for curiosity has a new poster child. Yes, you were great and all when that apple fell on your head, kudos to you for not gobbling up that apple or trying to make a quick buck off it. Personally, I think it was bad entrepreneurship. But I wonder if you ate that apple as you pondered over gravity, or did you eat it afterwards or maybe the missus baked you a celebratory apple pie for being a genius?

I’m sorry to have gotten off the track but the question still remains... what happened to that blasted apple?

I think Isaac Newton is over rated for being synonymous with curiosity and as much as I would love to hand over the crown to Alice ( Alice from the wonderland and not the mystery Alice from that annoying song about who the f*** is Alice! )

Think about it, there was Alice strolling about, minding her own business, and lo and behold, she meets a talking rabbit. Me thinks she had bigger issues than flying or falling apples and I would probably blame it on the mushrooms she had for lunch. But what does Alice do when confronted with a talking rabbit? For starters, she sure as hell didn’t eat him up, so in your face Isaac Newton! But she chased him down a hole that led to a wonderful adventure.

But she still isn’t my hero when it comes to being curious. A close second, yes.

My heroes are all those unknown faces that are driven by curiosity to acquire the simple pleasures of discovering and learning something new. No matter how mundane or magnanimous like Isaac Newton or delightful like Alice.

And so, to all those people who carried a dictionary under their arm as their bible, and those that would religiously seek out the best place in town for biryani or even those that googled google on google. You are the unsung heroes of curiosity.