"please read instructions"

Its not every day that you get to see life altering images, and mind boggling events, that change your outlook on life. Although, the times that you do see things of this nature, you often place these things in a small little file cabinet inside your mind, that you can later go back too when you feel reminded, or feel it to be necessary. As a kid you're surrounded by new things, and discoveries, and just loads and loads of stuff you just want to do. They say that a child's mind is like a sponge, and that it soaks up and retains most of its information at the delicate ages of infancy. My question to you is , at what point in your life, does your mind stop taking in these new events, and these new needs and wants to go out there and to do new things? Is it possible for someone to be able to never lose that sense of curiosity, and desire to always want to know what else is out there?
As a child in the "rebellious era", as i like to call it, i feel that today's youth are losing great amounts of curiosity in life, and are simply "settling" for what they feel life has to offer them. The drive for curiosity has slowy but surely slowed down. Plenty of time s i get questions like "what are you up to nowa days?" "what are your plans for your future?" i simply reply "to keep on wanting to know what else is out there in this world for me" not so much in those words per say, but along those lines. .. its times like that when i feel that the ppl in my generation have this general idea that their lives have been pre-mapped out, and given a guideline for them to follow, because its "proven success" to those of you who feel this, my advice to you is simple... "life is short, why spend it reading directions"