03/02/06 12:23 - 23ºF - ID#21044

On Being Excited

I'm sure we all remember our first day of college, first kiss, first sexual experience, second sexual experience, third sexual experience. They all have one thing in common, excitement. The problem with excitement is that very few things in life can manage to bring about consistent levels of it. I can't seem to remember the last time that I was first kiss excited, and certainly not first sexual experience excited. I'm sure I've been 50th sexual experience excited quite often but I'm sure we don't need to go any further into that metaphor. It could get messy. But anyways. I'm taking a poll. When is last time that you were so excited that you could not contain yourself? I don't mean sexually, although that would certainly be an acceptable mode of excitement for this query.
Not that I'm a gloomy individual, my disposition is actually quite agreeable. I've just had so many wonderful experiences in my life that I think my bar is set a bit high these days. So here is a very abbrevriated list of my most exciting moments in recent memory. Not in any order.
The day I decided to go back to college
The the first time I caught a wave (surfing)
The day I graduated Marine Corps Bootcamp (Very distant memory)
The day I started my own business
Any time I've gotten on a plane to go somewhere new
The day I wrote my first piano composition
The day I played it for my best friend
The Day I got out of the Marines
The Day I got my scholarship for graduate school
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jenks writes at 12:28:59 03/03/06 - Comment #5236: Hmm, interesting. But yeah, a little depressing. B/c I am really a happy-go-lucky person. Pretty much always laughing... but when you put it that way, I'm not sure I can remember the last time I was that excited. For me it's just little stuff "oh my god he kissed me" kind of stuff. But getting into/starting/graduating from college/med school/residency... all just "the next step". It's all just expected of me, so it's "no big deal", because OF COURSE it's going to happen...

theecarey writes at 12:16:08 03/03/06 - Comment #5235: Your post, other peoples comments (and subsequent posts) initiated a whole thought process that I am going to have to just make my own post about soon. Probably over the weekend when I have more time to settle down and think (and write). Thanks.. :)
I am a an easily humored person. I am sure I have been super giddy/excited/elated many times in the past year, however they currently elude me (I need to go to sleep). Although one that sticks out is my acceptance into Grad school. Well, not just acceptance but actually finding something I wanted to dive into.
More on all that later.. I am really excited to write about it ;)

metalpeter writes at 07:34:37 03/02/06 - Comment #5217: I get excited at sports events all the time. I guess the biggest level of excitment recently was the Bandits Home Opener. The Bag Pipper from Jackdaw Played the Pipes and walked down through the fans about a section away from me. Then as he Played Chutes and laders by korn played it was really awesome.

flacidness writes at 04:09:31 03/02/06 - Comment #5212: things that make you go hmmmm? my most recent exciting moment was my first night in new york and I was walking down times square 1:30 a.m. drunk. The other time I was excited was my first gay pride parade with (e:matthew), e;paul and (e:terry).

sbrugger writes at 09:50:57 03/02/06 - Comment #5205: Wow...the last time I was really and truly "couldn't contain myself" happy (not just mid-level sort-of excited..hmmmm...)......

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...when I proposed to my ex-fiancee.

Wow...that was just one of those mini-epiphany moments. Sometimes we don't realize how much we can change in just a few years until someone asks a question like that and we really think about it. I've gone from being someone who was giddy about spending the rest of my life with someone to someone who really doesn't think he wants to get married.

There may be some further thought necessary on this...maybe not...but thanks for that mental shove.

imk2 writes at 01:06:43 03/02/06 - Comment #5204: when i met my mother at age 8 after her being away for 4 years. she was a distant memory.

when i came to the united states. i thought it was all going to look like las vegas. i was disappointed.

i will count this one in, even tho it was negative excitement; when i saw my boyfriend get shot.

when i had a baby.

when i had to testify in court.

when i was flying to d.c. on sept 11th. and when i had to inform the passengers as to what happened.

when i've gone on all my vacations.....soooo many....sooo great!

oh yeah, how could i forget! when i won the 6th grade talent show at west hertel academy dancing to flash dance with white gloves and a strobe light!

when i got accepted to grad school.

when i got to go backstage at the bones thugs and harmony concert, and i didnâ€™t have to suck any dick for it!

when stone temple pilots were my passengers and i got to hang with them.

when i went back to poland after 13 years to see my father, he now was a distant memory.

when i found out my father died, right after leaving poland, and having to fly there again for the funeral.

leetee writes at 12:48:31 03/02/06 - Comment #5202: interesting question. And way cool things you have been excited about. :O)

For me, there have been many times i have been really excited. Then again, i tend to be the junping up and down excited type.

But, the last time i was so excited i could not contain myself was recently. I got a letter from the BCIS (bureau for citizenship and immigration services, formerely the INS, or immigration and naturalization services) telling me that i was approved for a permanent green card. I excitedly told my husband. My mother was visiting at the time and i ran up the stairs to tell her and in my haste and excitement, she thought i was distressed from all the yelling.