Lucky Girl: The Trick or Treat of Curiosity

By Haven Duddy

Curiosity looks chaotic from the outside, but inside the Living Lattice it behaves like a compass. The mmore open you are, the more the world rearranges itself to your openness. What looks like "luck" is often just what happens when you're willing to be wrong long enough for the truth to show up. This field note explores the trick-or-treat nature of curiosity - how it humbles, redirects, surprises, and ultimately shapes

People think being a "lucky girl" means life chose me - but maybe the truth is, I chose it first.

Curiosity looks chaotic from the outside, but inside the Living Lattice it behaves like a quiet compass. It doesn't just shout. It nudges. It taps your shoulder and whispers, look again.

And if you listen - even a little - the whole world begins to shift.

For most of my life, I assumed I was missing something.

Some angle.

Some fact.

Some essential truth that everyone else seemed to understand.

So I walked through the world with humility: I must be wrong. I must be misunderstanding. I must be missing a piece.

But here's the trick - that humility is exactly what made my world open.

Because when you're willing to believe you could be wrong, curiosity stays alive. And when curiosity is alive, meaning starts revealing itself - in tiny flashes or sudden avalanches.

The trick was thinking I was unlucky or confused.

The treat was discovering that staying open gave me access to truths I never would've seen otherwise.

This is the quiet brilliance of curiosity:

• It humbles you,

• disorients you,

• frustrates you,

• surprises you,

• and then -

• if you stay with it long enough

• it hands you the truth you didn't even know you were reaching for.

People call me a "lucky girl" now.

But luck is just what life looks like from the outside when, on the inside, you've been following the thread the whole time.