Excited

silverlining Oh yes Venice by night. People dancing in St Marks Square, the little orchestras taking it in turns to strike up. Magical.

Very excited watching dolphins playing off the coast at Warkworth beach on my birthday!
It is the simple things !

I thought about how I don't get excited anymore a few years ago and thought it was just me having become a miserable old woman. I do get pleasure from things but not the excitement before holidays or whatever that I used to feel. Glad to know it's not just me, perhaps it is an age thing.

I get excited all the time being optimistic, the sight of the postman, is he bringing me something exciting? The couriers, what did I order this time, waking up and nothing aches means a full day of something ahead. excitement and gratitude fill my life

Seeing my gc born (I've been very lucky to be asked to all of the births) was very exciting.
I get excited by new growth and odd flowers on my house plants.
But I'm very limited in terms of experiences atm so maybe I'd be excited about other stuff if only I could get out there and do it 🤔 🤣

We've been to Venice twice and stayed at a mobile home site called Ca Savio where with a five minute drive to Punta Sabioni we could get a regular boat over to Venice, sometimes in the morning with daily commuters. It was magical approaching by sea, there's always a thrill of seeing the wonderful city from the lagoon. Lovely memories.

2017 when we were going to New York on holiday- never been and it was somewhere we had all wanted to go.(me &2 sons) we loved it.☺️

I won tickets to see Gary Barlow on a cruise in March and I was excited w hen I was handed the tickets. And yes, the concert (although brief compared to an arena concert) did live up to expectations and we were only a few rows from the stage.

I was so excited last July when my son and his family came over from Tokyo where they work. I hadn’t seen them for three years mainly due to Covid. I did see them on FaceTime but not the same as in person.

General Election in 1997 when Blair won! Walking around Oxford at lunchtime there was a real buzz of excitement.

Last year when we'd booked a holiday to Dorset/Hampshire borders. I was excited to climb the hill to Corfe Castle as the last time I was in the area I was havily pregnant and couldn't manage it. " weeks before we were due to go I fell and broke my hip so although I still managed to go on holiday I still couldn''t get up to the castle. I wonder if I'll ever get there......

Hildagard, I have wondered the same thing. Excitement I think is all about anticipation, will I like it, what will happen. When you get older you pretty.much know already.

Any contact with wild animals thrills me
Me too MayBee70. I recently saw a weasel run across the road in front of us but hope he doesn’t do it too often as it’s a busy road.

When I was accepted to do a Masters degree at Oxford as a mature student.

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.

Just now - booking ENO opera in October!

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!