our ability to wonder...

“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world.” It was said by Alberto Knox, which I disagree with. People don’t lose their wonder about the world entirely; we just lose less of it as we grow familiar to how the world works.
I believe that as we grow older, we use the ability to wonder less; we don’t lose it completely. When we were kids, we seem to wonder more then than we do now. I think that the reason being is that as children are still young and not experienced as adults, they wonder and question more.
As like the example given in the book of how baby Thomas did not find anything wrong when his father started floating in the air as he is still a baby and hasn’t learnt that human beings can’t fly due to gravity. See his father fly around, baby Thomas will just accept the fact that people can fly and that one day he too will be able to fly. Because he is inexperienced of the world is why he can think that way. Unlike the mother, who has learnt about gravity and Newton’s laws and stuff, she knows that human beings can’t fly. She knows that it’s physically impossible as she has lived long enough to discover that people aren’t supposed to fly. Therefore, she gets scared.
The television could be used as another example. When I was a kid, I used to think that there were really tiny people living in the television, always ready to put on a show for me. But as I grew older, I learnt more about the world and how it works. And because I get more used to the world, I realized that not possible to have so many little people living in a flat screen TV. And with that, I never gave another thought to whether there were tiny people living in the TV or not; I just carried on with life, getting more and more familiar with the world.
Right now, as a young adult, I’m quite experienced with the world to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But that still doesn’t mean that I have lost the ability to wonder. I have just chosen to use it less, or have chosen to use it in a different way. Such as questions I ask myself ‘Who am I?’, ‘How did I become to be me?’, ‘Is there a life after death?’ These questions are often referred to as the BIG questions as no one can really answer these questions with evidence.
So to conclude, I don’t agree with Alberto Knox. Adults just use it less as we grow more used to the world.