Are they closely related?
You might find yourself curious about something or someone. You might be eager to seek more details, sneaking and sniffing here and there like a cat after a mouse, and staying alert day and night like a secret detective on a top- secret mission. What you are investigating might be non of your business, or it could be part of your own business. In any case, you won’t rest, won’t give up, and will never feel satisfied until you uncover what have been mysterious for you.
Isn’t this what curiosity is? Am I exaggerating, a bit?
However, you won’t be curious unless you are interested, attached, and involved with that specific person or thing. For example, when your neighbour’s driveway is suddendly full of cars, your curiosity might soar to its highest levels. But, you won’t be as interested in a similar situation on the next street.
Hence comes the close relation between curiosity and adventure, for, of course, you won’t be glued in the spot if you’re curious about something or someone. You’ll need to move in one direction, or all directions. However, this is when problems, dangers, and mistakes become too close to happen if you’re not careful enough. Your curiosity could become like the one that killed the cat. That’s when the two cousins, curiosity and adventure, turn you blind and deaf to reason, and push you from the brink of the cliff.
Strange how both curiosity and adventure can brighten your life and also darken it!
Have you read Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier? Mary’s story might give you a living example of these two related traits?
Here’s the link for my review:
/https://nh825.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/jamaica-inn/
With all the best wishes,
Nahla
Pure and Simple 