Mysterious

I had a massive sense of voyeurism as I clicked open the link to story and pictures of a secluded tribe located in Brazil.  I vaguely recall having a similar prickle of curiosity coupled with guilt a couple years ago when this tribe first made worldwide headlines for the very fact of being other-worldly (in the sense of being a legitimately self-sufficient group of human beings subsisting within a remote (in the sense of being otherwise similarly unfound and unsought)) location.

It's difficult for most of us to capture each others' intrigue for long, especially with the bevy of platforms for communication and probably also for the intrinsic characteristic I'd venture to assign to most human beings to connect (and whereby share) with one another.  So, for me (or you) to hear about a group of people otherwise totally unknown and undiscovered by the rest of us is pretty titillating news; it seems after all to be founded on the same basis that some of us choose/like/can't-help-but to believe in aliens--that sentiment that we are not alone (and the desire to know with whom we share the world/the galaxy/the universe). 

So, it was with an almost equal combination of misgiving and interest (heavier on the latter, clearly, since my ultimate decision was to peek through the keyhole) that I soaked up the details about this group of people, this tribe, who live so differently than the "rest of us".  I've been branded romantic, and I'll take it (with unequal parts pride and embarrassment, heavier on the former, candidly, since my ultimate decision is to confess as much to being), and having accepted the intrigue factor (the same as I would, sooner or later, if little green men were actually found to be "out there"), I toy with the concept of being unknown.  To literally not be known by the vastly vast rest of the world.  How does, if it does, change who you are?  Tribe members are reported to be bodily covered in red paint from a seed called "urucum".  [Perhaps a social experiment is in order, and I shall venture out next week in red body paint to chart social reaction.]

Life sometimes can be mysterious.
Mysterious: -adjective
  Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify; (of a location) Having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy