What are you curious about?

MACABRE CURIOSITY

it’s difficult to quantify curiosity, particularly for someone like me who tends to be curious about many things. Some of that curiosity extends to happenings and the forecast of outcomes (in my mind) locally, regionally, state and territory, Australia-wide, within the four hemispheres of Earth and indeed worldwide with everything in together.

I’ve always believed imagination which is closely aligned with curiosity to be an important ingredient of thinking. When involved with Education, are used to put to students that they have three eyes, A left eye, a right eye and an inner or imaginative eye.

This third eye was the mind’s eye. I used to tell children that the imagination within the minds was a wonderful characteristic and let them know that too often as people age, the mind’s eye grows dim and the imagination fades. I used to counsel them that as they grew up and matured, they ought to try their hardest to keep their mines Ilana alive, vibrant and functioning.

A student, aged 11 at the time, once said to me as I was teaching, “Mr Gray, you have the body of a man and the mind of a child.“ I took that as a compliment and a confirmation of the fact that my imagination and curiosity were still very alive and well. I hope they have not died or gone to sleep during the years of my retirement from full-time education.

That is a long aside but it leads to the thing in this life about which I am most curious – and sadly it is not a happy thought for my imagination to dwell upon.

The world is full of conflict. There is conflict within regions and countries. There is open disputation between countries which is leading to war. The Russian/Ukraine war (Which Vladimir Putin said would last for three days) has now been going on for 530 days or more. If China is battling against Taiwan and Taiwan is declaring readiness for war against China. America and Australia and others are looking to support Taiwan on (which incidentally they don’t even recognise Country) if there is a conflict. New paradefence is the number one priority on the agenda of a growing number of countries. It seems to me the talk about peace is pyrrhic and it’s only a matter of time before civil unrest and our pride war take over the world. I sincerely believe that Armageddon is just around the corner.

Such is my curiosity and my worry for family our country all countries and people of the world. My curiosity may be macabre but it reflects upon are you a real problem.