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being curious

Learning is a joy, and education is a gift! If I could pick one trait for everyone in the world to have, it would be curiosity. It begets all the other good stuff like compassion and intelligence and humor. Being a lifelong learner is an easy lifestyle to jump into – just be curious. Maintaining a sense of curiosity about the world around you makes life feel magical. It also makes your classes much more rewarding (and therefore much easier to go to). Ask more questions! Wonder about things! Be curious!

@nevin

Feb 9, 2025

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Paying more attention!

I always find weird when people talk about child-like wonder and how it fades, truth is, it does, but it doesn't have to. It fades when you are a teenager who thinks they know everything and for most people it doesn't return. I've found that child-like wonder is just, paying attention, let me explain. What was the last time you checked a license plate for a funny number o letters? what was the last time you checked out the pattern in a leaf? How it feels to have bug crawl on your skin. When you pay more attention, you start to wonder the whys, the hows and the whos. Please don't let life just pass you by, at least give it a good look. Why do you think the light in this room was purple?

@lanzalasalagua

Jan 18, 2025

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pure curiosity

there are a lot of big and small reasons to keep going but they can be hard to see when you’re deep down in the well, so to speak for whatever reason the thing that kept me going was knowing that the ever-changing nature of the world means that things can’t stay the same way forever, wondering how things would change, and being curious enough to stick around and find out

@pissfork_babe

Mar 2, 2024

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birdwatching

i don't think anyone ever intends to become a recreational ornithologist. but i've noticed that it definitely creeps up on you slowly in your mid-twenties. it starts with noticing how funny pigeons are, then learning pigeon lore, and suddenly you're feeding your neighbourhood birds every morning and buying books on birds. as a child i idolised the pigeon lady in home alone 2, and i woke up this morning and realised — i AM the pigeon lady 🐦

@theeyah

Mar 6, 2025

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Reading for 60-90mins a day

reading is a habit of building and developing your empathy and critical thinking skills. you’re forced to sit with an idea for however long you are reading it and forced to contextualise it and comprehend it within your own life and perspective. You can’t just scroll away or pause or put it on 2x speed. you have to sit with it. it’s super underrated, but genuinely I’ve made this a habit for the last year and feel like a totally different person. also you come out of it having learned something new or seeing the world in a slightly new way. I literally do not see any downsides to reading. make reading cool again! also you don’t have to do it in one big block, you can space it out — 15 mins here, 45 there — whatever works for you!

@theeyah

Dec 9, 2024

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not trying to be cool

our cultural obsession with being perceived as cool is a disease. its peak capitalistic/consumerist propaganda. fuck being cool. like what you like and who cares if it's cool or not. it's tiresome and we need to leave it in 2024. literally nothing gives me the ick more than people who betray themselves in an attempt to be perceived as cool by the masses. be yourself — even if it means you're 'uncool'.

@theeyah

Jan 3, 2025