Curiosity

Curiosity by Alastair Reid is a really cool poem. I don't really know how to describe this poem, it's just kind of incredible. Even though Reid wrote about a cat, this poem isn't humerus it ponders life. People do say that curiosity is a bad thing, but Reid gave a very good argument as to why it isn't a bad thing at all.

Personally, I agree with Reid. In this poem, he talks about how if you're not curious then life would be rather dull. What would life be without questions. People need to question and find things out because if not, then there would never be any growth or change. If Martin Luther King and Malcolm X hadn't questioned then blacks would still be slaves and they wouldn't be free today. Another way that I look at it is that if you are always under the rule of certain people, who's to say that those rulers are right? Sometimes, you just have to find out things for yourself. That's the beauty of being individuals: each persons questions, struggles, and accomplishments are what make them who they are.

My favorite line of this poem is:

Dying is what, to live, each has to do.

In order to truly live your life, you cant be afraid of death and when you do die hopefully you were happy with what you did while you were alive.