This is the way the cookie crumbles: your life, the quality of your life depends on you.
I’ve read somewhere that people are only curious about something they already know. Not ‘know about’ but actually know. Had experience with.
Knowing about is idle curiosity: useless.
You don’t know the river until you wade into it.
You don’t know a person unless you wade in and deal with him.
And you don’t know a poem until you try to say it out loud.