This statement Alberto Knox mentioned in this novel lead us to wonder as if we do actually lose the ability to wonder about the world or not. The question is, do we lose the ability or do we just choose to not to explore about the world? Many things seem to be rather secrecy to us when we were young, that’s why we explore and discover to find to truth that we are looking for. As we grow up, we were told about the standard of things, some people may just accept the facts that were informed from the teachers, parents, or the textbooks but some people just wonder and question what they were told. So they ask and seek for the truth and argue against it until they get their “truth”. We ask, we experience, we search for the truth as we go through the process of growing, and that’s where our knowledge came from.
But on the other hand, even things were once fascinating to us, but once we find out the truths and all the mysteries seem to have been solved, we don’t get as interested as we would before because things seem to have to point to figure out anymore. Also as we grow up we get caught up easily by other things that are happening in life that we start to have less interest to explore and perhaps just starting to accept the standard things that we were told.
But on the other hand, even things were once fascinating to us, but once we find out the truths and all the mysteries seem to have been solved, we don’t get as interested as we would before because things seem to have to point to figure out anymore. Also as we grow up we get caught up easily by other things that are happening in life that we start to have less interest to explore and perhaps just starting to accept the standard things that we were told.
Although it may seems as if we do actually lose our ability to wonder about the world as we go though the process of growing up but this ability won’t ever be “lost” because this skill started ever since we were born. We’ve always had it and it will always stay inside us.
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I don't think you really gave your viewpoint, but I agree with your point when you said that people just learn to accept and lose interest in things around them. I believe this is because of the repetition and routine around them that causes this lack of wonder.
People have stopped considering and thinking, and takes in whatever others tell them, be it teachers, friends, parents...
I agree with the fact that you said the ability cannot be lost. I also think that the ability to wonder is innate and it stays with us. I believe that from when we were born and taught about the world our ability to wonder decreases as more restriction / rules or laws is put into our lives. We know what can happen or what can be predicted to happen, leading to us thinking that things that are predicted are usually right there is no reason for us to think it is not.
For example, if it was predicted that it would rain tomorrow, we would not think that it would because weather forecast is usually accurate. So we would not wonder whether it will be sunny tomorrow because it has already been said it will rain.
This is why I think people's ability to wonder diminishes with the knowledge they have obtained because they know what can be proven and what cannot thus limits what they can wonder.
I absolutely agree that the ability to wonder won't ever be lost because it is a natural ability that was given to us when we were born. It is part of the human characteristic: to be inquisitive and curious. It is also so true that knowledge only comes from asking, experiencing and searching for truths. We do that a lot as a child because every single thing is a new thing to us, so we would naturally be curious about them. But as we grow up, we just learn more about lots of things in the world so we just 'wonder' less. The main point is that we don't lose the ability to wonder, we just do it less.
Our ability to wonder won't ever be lost and I completely agree with you. It is part of human nature to be curious. At different stages of life, we are curious about different things. As a child, we may be curious towards things such as 'what happens if I put a chalk into water?' or something at least visible to the child's eye. Later on as an adult, we may wonder about questions such as 'What is our purpose in life?' or 'Why are we in this world?'. Then again as adults, some prefer not to wonder about such type of questions and they are ignorant towards them. In the end of the day, its all a matter of choice. If they wish to wonder or if they don't, they wouldn't lose their ability to wonder. They would be putting to waste a wonderful ability given to us throughout our lives.
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