MW Featured Question — August 2026 (Childlike Wonder)
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Q: What does childlike wonder mean to you? ~ Jamie

A: Childlike wonder is the stubborn refusal to let "because that's just how it works" be a satisfying answer. It's pulling a thread everyone else walked past.

Children don't experience gravity as a law. They experience it as a personal affront. That perpetual outrage at the ordinary? That's the thing.

The more accurate opposite is incuriosity: the quiet, organized tragedy of a mind that stopped asking why and started just filing.

Childlike wonder is the decision, usually poorly timed, to crouch down and examine the caterpillar while everyone else is already at the car.

What nobody tells you is that the caterpillar was always the point. The car was just where everyone agreed to be.
-Justin