Are we just curious?

Have you ever overheard a snippet of a conversation, and wanted to know the rest?
Have you ever talked to someone, said a sentence, only to have the person ask you to repeat it?
Have you ever gotten the reply of "Just never mind" when you asked them to repeat it?

Why?

Why are we so curious?

Is it really that important what that person had to say?

If that person says never mind, why do we ask again?





Are we really that scared of missing a piece of information from our lives?



Is it vital to us?
Why is it that we are so curious?
Are we really that hungry for information, even if the end it could hurt us?

The human mind is a strange thing. Some minds have an insatiable need for information, others could care less about knowledge. We all have a curiosity. We are terrified of not knowing the same things that our friends know, in fear of becoming left out. It isn't even that we have to know what that information is, it is just that we want to fit in. It is like we are programmed to do things that will make us "popular" or conformed. We are so dependent on our friends, and so scared of not being liked by them anymore that we would do almost anything just to hear that information again, to know the same things as others.

Why are we so desperate to be liked?