In the movie ”Ad Astra”Brad Pitt plays an astronaut at the head of a mission destined to find extraterrestrial life. What seems like an epic story becomes a emotional drama caused by a bad relationship with a father, also an astronaut, who disappeared on a previous mission. Brad Pitt’s character he adds calamities until he is left alone on the ship and there, instead of returning to Earth and not risking any more, he decides head towards Neptune and look for his father.
Why do you take that step? Does she need to reconcile with her father, forgive him? Is there nothing holding him back on Earth and he flees forward? Is he even more of a Martian than his father? ”Ad Astra” It’s one of those movies that they encourage you to think when they start the credit titles. The reality is that we do not need certainties to do things in our lives that we internally believe in, only enough curiosity to face them, translating ”curiosity” as a brutal force that pushes us to face our challenges.
When we stand in that real or imagined space that we know well, in our place of safety, we act from an automatic thought that will hardly solve the great dilemmas of life.
Unknowns always challenge us and they do so from inhospitable territories, whether it’s Neptune or a new job.
They do not need intellectual understanding so that we can launch ourselves into them. They simply exist and something tells us that we have to resolve the question they raise.
A couple of days ago, after a conference in Zaragoza, a woman approached me to tell me that she had come from Barcelona to listen to me. ”Why did you do it?” I thought immediately. She went ahead to answer me that discovered the call on the networkstook the car and said “here I go.” There was not a specific reason, but it is a curiosity that is difficult to even talk about. We do not always search satisfy something specificsometimes we don’t know what we are looking for, but that curious impulse is clarifying to achieve the goal. I usually say that curiosity is shown through intuition, or maybe intuition uses curiosity to be heard; The order does not matter, the process is symbiotic.
I often say that curiosity shows itself through intuition, or perhaps intuition uses curiosity to make itself heard; The order does not matter, the process is symbiotic
Sometimes we have intuition about what We have to do something -it can be dissolving the distance between the two and giving the first kiss, changing cities, continuing with the same life project or getting away from it- and, given the tenacity of that impulse that pushes us to listen to him, no matter how softly he speaks to us, we listen to him and move on.
At the same conference someone asked me why I assimilated curiosity to the idea of ​​”rebirth”. I responded that one of the missions of curiosity is to provide clarity in those difficult moments of life where everything turns upside down and we do not understand why or why so much pain.
Curiosity It helps us to investigate the meaning of each setback, the learning behind it, the teaching that the lack of expectations leaves us, because when we are able to leave behind sadness, failure, anger, frustration, mourning for the loss , and we focus on finding strengths that at another time helped us recover from the worst, we facilitate understanding beyond what we experienced. The event does not matter, the important thing is the person who appears after experiencing it. Then we are reborn. Curiosity becomes the oar that allows a castaway to stay afloat and reach the shore. Or in that which prompts an astronaut in space to search if there is anyone else in that immensity. Don’t let it happen to you like Luke Skywalker and you turn out to be his father.
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