Lucy Bellwood

When we box ourselves too tightly into a single identity or career path, we deprive ourselves of the nutrient necessary to remain connected to the world around us. We are lacking in vitamin curiosity.

Pioneers are fundamentally curious. They want to see what's just over the next ridge. They want to discover whether the stories are true.

When we are young, we are presented with a set of pretty basic isolated end-goal career and identity options . . . Nobody tells you that your curiosity, your life experience, is going to determine a lot about what kind of doctor or firefighter you become.

I don’t want us to fall prey to the idea that our curiosity must be quarantined from our work less we become distracted or waffly. We don’t want to check the very thing that defines us at the door because it might not match the dress code.

We are all pioneers...Each of us must find a sense of belonging for the first time in our own lives. Belonging is not a country. It is not singular. It is not a noun. If anything, I would say it’s a network. It’s a community. And we have to make community. We have to knit them together with these shared passions and vulnerability and kindness and encouragement.