Curiosity. It's something we all have. It's something that provokes questions and we strive for the answers. It's something that takes up time. It's something that can make you cry, laugh, or sigh. Without out it, we'd have no mission. Yet with it, we feel lost. What is Curiosity?

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, curiosity is "something that is interesting because it is unusual."

The ideas that curiosity brings to us can cause one of the most emotional triggers of our life. Let's try an experiment. If you're not in a quiet place, wait until you head to bed tonight and when you are in bed do the following. (This experiment might be too intense for some readers to handle so tread at your own pace.)

1. Close your eyes and remove all distractions.

2. Think about the color black.

3. Think about empty space all around you. No gravity, no materials around you, nothing.

4. Think about the feelings of a vacuum.

5. Now place yourself inside of all of that. (This will take several minutes to truly grasp and understand.)

How did you hold up? Were you surprised at the amount of emotion you were able to feel? This is what curiosity can do. For me, I felt deep sadness. Almost the sadness that I thought the boy in "The Giver" experienced during some of his sessions. I believe that one of the world's greatest poets, Edgar Allen Poe, was right when he believed that sadness was the most powerful emotion, but maybe it's because I have not felt love? Did he ever feel love? And if love is the most powerful emotion then can losing that love be stronger in sadness? This is where curiosity has taken control again.

By now you see that curiosity is more than just thoughts. It pull emotion every which way. It can make you cry, laugh or sigh. It can make you dare to achieve. It can make you salivate for the water that answers provide. He is what makes us achieve great unthinkable tasks. It is why we have unimaginable things like light, airplanes and modern medicine. Curiosity, we thank you.