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Everyone has curiousity. It is the amazing gift that drives us to explore the world around us. It is curiousity that pushes man to investigate. and alas many inventions are created and enlightenments are gained. A great speaker, advertiser, producer of entertainments will know how to manipulate the innate curiousity in men to their advantage in attaining these people's attention. However, curiousity can be dangerous too. As the adage goes, "curiousity kills a cat". Despite it is the door to discovery, we should at times hold our desire for information.

I have seen many people around me whose interation with curiousity lead to many interesting behaviours. Remembering my class's "intellectual discussions" during bology tutorials, during which we often go off tangent of the syallbus and engage ourselves in debates about curious facts. These are really enjoyable times actually, as my mind was set to receive different perspective of things and really expand in all directions. It is a wonderful feeling to ride on one's curiousity.

It has also been interesting to see how some people make use of the curiousity of other people to get attention. There are people who like to beat about the bush, dropping bits and pieces of information here and here, ultimately achieving the aim of getting others hooked onto the topic. By then, the curiousity of the audience will drive them to seek for more information. It is kind of similar to feeding a man with lots of salt until he becomes thirst - stopping him from drinking would be impossible.

These hint dropper perhaps enjoys to be at the centre of attention. However, i would like to give a gentle reminder here that while such behaviour is not morally wrong or anything, sometimes if something is not meant to be spoken of or is better not to be known, it is better not to drop hints at all. The curiosity of men is a powerful thing. No matter how clueless one may initially be, once the amount of curiosity has go beyond the threshold, he will definitely go out in all ways to seek for the answers to his doubts. The consequence in such a case is most of the time unpleasant.

We need to think about the position of others when we speak, as well as their curiosity. It might be fun to show that you know something that others do not know off, but the effect can go in the not so nice way. You might be 'pestered' by others ( or some people like being pestered?) ; or others will come to realisation about the issue and be disturbed emotionally about it.

The listeners, on the other hand, may perhaps learn to hold their curiosity if they detect that the topic may be a sensitive one. For me, usually i am not persistent in finding out about things that other people hinted if they do not wish to tell me more about it. It like an ostrich behavour actually, i'll 'hid my head in the sand' if i realise that either the event does not worth finding out about or that my six sense tells me that i shouldn't known about it. Ignorance is blissed. :P

This is just a random piece, not directed at any one or any event. It may not make sense as I have not sorted out the thoughts myself. Perhaps i ll revise this entry again next time.

p.s. Keeping secret is not only about not revealing the event, but also not showing any sign of indication of the existence of the event. Once people get to know that there is such an event, their curiosity will drive them to find out more and the cat will ultimately get out of the bag. Maybe the actual person who reveal the secret is not you, yet you are the primary cause of the leak. It is just like "我不杀伯仁，伯仁却因我而死".