Thread: Being "genuinely" interested in/curious about somebody, ever felt that way?

Will make it clear now. Curiosity and how it works/why it exists are explained by science, at the same time, using common sense, everybody can find why us humans are curious creatures.

We are interacting with others, constantly. We ask people if they think free will exists or not, we ask them where they got that awesome hat, we ask them whether they love us/find us attractive or not... This goes on forever. And you might have noticed, questions share that one thing. We benefit from them. We ask, we wonder, become curious so we can learn. We need to discover to stay alive, to get stronger. (Now I'll not go deeper and explain why we need information/learning assuming you already have an idea.)

Now the question. Do you ever ask trivial questions to others about themselves, out of pure curiosity and not because you want to see if you can become good friends/partners/lovers?

I wonder why we ask things like "What's your favorite color?" Answers to questions like this won't provide asker any useful information. (Don't tell me we become curious about a friend's favorite color because unconsciously we want to get them the best t-shirt on their birthday)

Spending time on dv is to learn, philosophical discussion is to learn, to benefit from. Well, most of the time.

I wonder if questions like "What do you think happens when we die?" and "What's your favorite color?" can be same in nature.

And I think, maybe this is what love is about. I'm not necessarily talking about romantic kind of love. Any two people can be in love, in tune. In love and infinitely curious, unexplainably passionate about discovering eachother.

This possibility, it just blows my mind, people.