When you're with a small group, you can do that relatively easily, but when you're with a large group, you feel compelled to speak to everyone there, which means you only get a couple of minutes with each person. That's not long enough to converse, just chat. If you're really going to converse, you have to spend more time with someone, which means you're spending less time with the larger group and more time with a smaller sub-group. Hence, if you're going to be social and converse with people, it has to be with one or a very few people. It's just three little letters, yet it is they that inspire us to find the answers to everything we know.
Children are naturally curious.
It means you don't care about the answer. It means you don't care about gaining any more knowledge. Apathy has set in. It's at this point that you start to mindlessly conform to everything you see, and something is lost forever. What I do think, though, is that to mindlessly conform to society is wrong.