Somewhere in a grand wide world, in a odd looking forest, something quite strange was slumbering.
A peculiar little mushroom was rooted into the ground in a small patch of grass, its body seemed to be made of a gentle white light, and this light also occupied the little polka-dot pattern on its cap, and the cap itself shined a deep, defined light green; the entire mushroom looked ethereal, with the slightest amount of translucence that made it look even more prepossessing.
For a while, it sat there, like any normal mushroom would, but THIS one wasn't anything close to ordinary, not one bit, as there was one more feature that put it into a completely different category of "fungi"…
Right under the cap where it meets its stump, was a small hole, the shape of an oval, nothing but empty darkness filled it…
Until two little dots of dim green light popped into existence…
It couldn't fully see the surroundings, things were blurry as its eyes were squinted, like it just awoke from a long, good nap.
It slowly looked up towards where it was feeling something, its eyes slowly widening.
Only to squint once again in the face of the blinding sunlight, but after a bit, it wasn't bothered by it anymore as its eyes adjusted to the light, actually, it started to enjoy the warmth, it especially felt nice on its…head?
Wait, what's a head?
Till it woke up just now, it never thought, felt, or seen things, not the wonders of the sun, the precious warmth it spread, nor how it made it feel, but now, it could suddenly do all of that, and understandably, it freaked out.
Slowly, it felt disconnected from the surroundings, from the sounds it didn't know it heard, to the feelings it didn't know it felt, everything was spinning in its mind, going too fast for it to comprehended, when it hasn't grasped anything.
It thought nothing but gibberish at an extreme pace from being thrown from non-existence into waking reality, with this feeling overwhelming its mind.
It was like this for a long time, but eventually, it calmed down.
Once it did, it finally put attention to its surroundings with clarity.
It was roughly the size of a baseball, maybe even a bit bigger, but that didn't stop it from gazing at the wonderful scenery…
And gosh did it look wonderful.
The surroundings were filled with nature's allures, flowers filled with a dazzling assortment of colors, some even looked like they were changing colors, creating a sort of pattern with the flowers around them, before the little one could be stuck in the flowers mesmerizing trance from the constant change in pattern & hue, it moved its head to where it heard something that came from above.
Each sense was like trying something new; a crisp, enjoyable experience as this is the first time it has used its senses.
It looked about to see where the nice sounds were coming from, which ended up leaving its gaze at the pleasantly thin, lanky ash-grey trees to their leaves dancing in the breeze above, the leaves were on the edge of teal, but still distinguishably green, the atmosphere was nice and cool, but it was just the right amount to relish the bask of the sun in the gaps the trees allowed it to pass, which was allowing one of the sun's rays to greet our little friend, giving a wonderful balance between the two, the sun also allowed the surrounding patch of grass to grow comfortably, to the point it was just tall enough to be in the little shroom's vision, completing the perfect image that was its current environment.
It was so completely absorbed into this overall picture that it was slowly being committed to memory...
Now, wherever this mushroom went, it would have this… experience…memory… with it, for the rest of its life.
It would've probably stayed completely rooted there for all of time if it wasn't for its mind becoming curious.
'Is there more of this?'
This is the first thing it asked itself in its new existence, but of course, this was just in its head, it hasn't even tried to make a sound yet, so far, all its discovered was this exquisite sight, its ability to think, the nice sound of the breeze whizzing past its ears, rustling the leaves, causing the teal grass to sway, and the pleasant feeling of sun along with the nice air against its body.
Who knew what else was there?
This was the center of its new thoughts, all of these things were amazing in their own right, it had only woken up a while ago, but now, it was really 'waking up', to what can be out there if this is just what's in sight, what lay beyond its view, it wanted to know… it wanted to discover all the more wonderful and amazing stuff in its new reality, in this world, and experience it, firsthand.
So, this newly created sentience found the first of many things to drive itself forward…
This baby mushroom, who hadn't even the power of a pinky finger… had something burning in its heart, a reason to exist, to live… and that was…
Burning Curiosity.