Excited

September 2022 - when we went on the Rocky Mountaineer, Gold Leaf from Vancouver to Banff. We'd had an amazing trip through America and Canada but this was the reason I'd come this far. Beyond excited and it lived up to expectations.

Well I am excited now have just booked a weeks holiday in the sun. After this terrible weather I am delighted.

Wow Eejit….how incredibly fortunate 😀

I envy you Foxie8. Just watching dressage on the television often chokes me up.

This afternoon I wouldn’t say excited but I was thrilled to see that the worrying high pitched bird sounds I’d been hearing were made by a family of wrens being fed. They were in the hedge next to me and one baby even hopped round the edge of a flowerpot just a few feet away from me. Wonderful!

Excitement beyond belief in that I will be meeting up with my bestie next week when we will celebrate 64 years since we first met. I'm keeping it under control - just. Unfortunately she hasn't done as well as me health wise but we won't let that hinder our joy. Viva friendship!

Amalegra, that sounds so sad. Here's a (((hug))) and some .

^ I guess it’s a lot to do with how we define excitement.^ - This is the nubs of it, Kayteetay1.

For me, to call it "excitement" it probably has to have a measure of adrenalin/risk...

EEJit - thinking of you. Yes, that would have been exciting.
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What might be ordinary, mundane things for most are things that are the most pleasant, fun and exciting things for me: can be nature, a family/friend event, a travel opportunity, a new home, a pet, Christmas coming, your birthday, going out to eat a fabulous place, etc.

I’m not an excitable person as such, but feel blessed that I’m of a positive nature and see the up ⬆️ side to most things.

What would be a trigger to get me really excited? Something like - a Palace Coup in the Kremlin. THAT would do it!
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Sooo (secretly) excited (for nearly a year!!!) when I managed to, secretly, book hubby on our first cruise…got him right to the side of the boat (P and O Arora) after telling him we were going to spend New Year at a hotel as a treat fir his birthday……even on the dockside kept up the pretence that we were catching the ferry to the Isle of Whight. Brother and Sis in law met us there and joined in the ‘surprise reveal.’
Hubby always said he never fancied a cruise. 2 days in, of our 5 day cruise across the Channel and North Sea, HE booked a second cruise!! Still get frisson of excitment just thinking about it

I squealed with excitement when a friend got a full set of dressage tickets for the Paris Olympics and asked me to go with her. OH said I had a grin from ear to ear all day. I am happy about lots of things in my life but this was so unexpected. I'm still feeling pretty excited although it's nearly 14 months away!

Got me thinking - no, I don't get excited these days. I look forward to things sometimes but never with that feeling that I can't wait, not like when I was a child. I'm not particularly worried about unpleasent things either, I sleep well enough before something like a root filling at the dentists. I think I'm stuck too much in the moment to get excited for good or bad. Odd, getting older...

If life feels a bit stale and in need of re-jigging I can recommend doing the 'Artists Way in retirement' by Julia Cameron. It will help reassess what priorities and goals in life are important to you, especially as you age. My u3a are doing it over the summer break, I can't wait to discover what I still really want to do at 76.

Watching our lovely daughter re-marrying as a widow.

She seems so excited, as are her grown children and grandchildren. After her 'Mum works hard wedding' ended - I'm excited as well.

Excited - not for many a year sadly ... pleased to see my newborn granddaughters etc, and do get a thrill at the races, but not been since 2020 - yes I was at the super spreader event at Cheltenham! Get a thrill from picking a 100/1 winner, which I have done a few times now, but as I only put a quid each way on it it doesn't get me that much!

But 'excited', definitely not since at least the late 1980's!!

It was yesterday actually! I didn't know what to expect when I signed up for an over-50's drama workshop called 'Age is a Stage' but I absolutely loved it! Everyone was so welcoming and I came away so inspired and excited for the next session!

Bill Bryson wrote something like 'I dont know which is worse - me (as a child )getting excited over everything as we didn't have/do much OR my kids being excited over nothing as they've had/done every thing. I think about this a lot as I have never been abroad, had only a few holidays and dont attend parties, meals out etc but am very often thrilled by the ordinary and a day out to a historic site renders me sleepless with excitement!

Don’t know whether it can be called excitement now at my age but the pleasant anticipation I felt travelling with my daughter and grandchildren to pick up my new puppy last August, that I’d thought long and hard about getting.
She’s one now and I love her to bits.

I used to get excited about a variety of things but due to being disappointed about so many of them, when I have been often left let down and sad, I simply don’t go there anymore. I look forward with pleasurable anticipation, sure, while being aware that much may go wrong. That has applied to a great deal of my life. So no, although I would love to get excited as I did in my younger days, the price is too high to pay. This saddens me but I don’t trust ‘excitement’ any longer as it is far too risky.

Going up in a hot air balloon
Coming into Harbour in Sydney seeing the Bridge and Opera house.
Again , coming into Harbour in Cape Town and seeing Table Mountain.
Not doing cartwheels but very exciting all the same.

Three years ago when walking through the arrivals at Perth airport knowing our DS would be there waiting for us.

I know exactly when I was last excited, 7:30am on Thursday 23rd of March this year.

I got a phone call from Glenfield Hospital to tell me that they thought they had a matching kidney for me and asking me to make my way to the hospital.

I was lucky, the kidney matched and it was transplanted overnight.

I‘m excited now because the live cam of the Katmai National Park bears will soon be on YouTube again. I watched it last summer and it was SO fascinating. Now I am excited to see which bears return, especially if it’s with new cubs! The date the cameras go live again hasn’t been announced but it will be soon. 😆

I can totally identify with this issue. I guess it’s a lot to do with how we define excitement. I can’t remember the last time I felt truly excited as I did in my younger days so wonder if it’s an age thing. On the whole my feelings about most things are fairly flat so maybe I’m depressed or world weary with the incessant gloom n doom of the modern age. It would be great to feel excited again!

Just now - booking ENO opera in October!

I bought VIP tickets to Britains Strongest Man in January and met my hero Mark Felix. It was definitely the most exciting day of my life. My daughter was with me and was horrified when I blurted out “we love you, Mark”. He must have wondered who this strange old lady was. My daughter laughed about it for days afterwards.