Mystery: How Not Knowing Keeps Us Going

And I bring this up because...

It's so easy to think that we know everything, right? It's like I have 150 IQ and I went to Harvard and I'm a doctor and lawyer.

But there's so much mystery out there.

Because not just murder mysteries, there's UFOs.

We don't unidentify.

There are mysteries out of the unknown.

When I was a kid, they said there were, what, nine planets, seven planets, something like that? and now we've discovered there are thousands, if not millions of planets out there.

There are all these galaxies.

We only talked about, when I was a kid, we only talked about the Earth, the Sun, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, you know, and now we're talking about, now we're into the quantum physics of it all.

Now we're talking parallel universes.

If you talked about that as a kid, you'd be crazy.

You'd be a Trekkie, but now we're like, no the black hole like what's on the other side we don't know and we we love the the unanswered questions the uncertainty the unfolding relationships not knowing who that's why we love like a new relationship you know because we don't know the mystery who are they oh they're so mysterious and then after a few years of marriage you're like oh they're not mysterious That you go, you know, oh, that's that's Bill.

That's Samantha.

That's, you know, like Barack Obama talks about that.

Like, you know, to us, he's he was the president and like, oh, we need to know more.

And he's so mysterious.

And to his kids, he's just he just Barack or his dad or, you know, that kind of thing.

But why do we love mystery as human beings? Why do we love not knowing? I think about my childhood, right, where you open a cabinet because you don't know what's in there.

When I go to a friend's house, I always, and they hate when I do this and I get yelled at, and I probably have not been invited back to my friend's house because I will go into their cabinets to see What do they eat? What prescription pills are they taking? How do they fold their clothes in there? I'm a complete snoop.

I'm a complete nosy body.

I'm definitely going to get... get shot or ostracized or banned just for doing that and this is why like as kids we also like to press buttons like as soon as you find out like you like you're like the mystery of a kid is as a kid is like trying to find out like what bothers people like do you like this like you know you always had that kid that'll poke you does that make you tickle does that make you mad what about now what about now you know like we're just so curious like you see a bug you pick up the bug and then you're playing with it and you're you bring it close to your face you might even lick the bug am i the only one that you're like what does a bug taste like i don't know um and i remember and i remember being very young and you know you'd hear about kids who would use a magnifying glass to burn ants and i just always thought that was so cruel i could never do it But just out of curiosity, I could see kids playing with fire, talking to strangers like, who is this person? What are they about? When you see somebody who just looks different just for the context, like if I'm at a grocery store, I remember there was this lady.

She dressed to the nines every day, every day.

And she was like 65, probably a little older than that.

And finally one day I was like, every day I see you, you're dressed impeccably.

And she was like, yeah, why not? And, you know, I found out that she used to be an architect.