This is my essay titled “The Gift of Curiosity” that was published on the website for “This I Believe: A Public Dialogue About Belief — One Essay At a Time.” Go to http://thisibelieve.org/essay/134229/ to see my essay and read others. I believe in curiosity. When I was twelve, my parents and I travelled to Avebury, an ancient stone circle nestled into the rolling hills of England. A cool breeze blew as I wandered from stone to stone, around the wide, grassy field. I paused, and running my hand across one of the narrow boulders, felt the toll of time in its surface, the stone worn by thousands of years in the…