What was the last thing that made you excited?

[ashitaria]

*sigh*

I've been so philosophical these days. It seems like my life doesn't have any meaning, nothing excites me days. I can hardly find anything worth my time these days, and I'm hoping for some excitement-like a debate, an unsolvable puzzle....something!

So do you guys have anything that you guys don't mind sharing- things that made you excited? Because I sure as hell need some freaking purpose in life, apart from getting a 4.0 GPA and college scholarships and trying to increase my goddamn self-esteem.

Did I ever tell you that I've been struggling with my self-esteem lately?

 

[flow]

YouTube- The Morning Benders - "Excuses" Yours Truly session

New music excites me, anytime I find a new song, album, or artist that I love.. life suddenly seems so much better! I'm not saying this song is particularly exciting in itself, but it does represent one of the little moments of joy I've experienced this week alone.

Oh, this excited me too!
YouTube- Wide Eyes - Local Natives

Life is exciting with music.

 

[tashi]

I'm actually in a similiar situation, and usually, I would have to look back months to find something that had truely excited me. Yesterday, I participated in a science fair, and I had several very interesting conversations with my judges. One of my judges was an intp, and I would not be suprised if he wasn't the only one(out of my judges). It was definatly an enjoyable experience.

 

[tashi]

Life is exciting with music.

Very true, especially when you get to participate in it's creation.

 

[Zero]

Reading books always helps me feel better. Especially when they're classics and of a "higher" literary variety (and documentary, non-fiction, memoirs). But I do like my pop fiction here and there. I really want to sink my teeth into some Indie though.

I'm not a good student for it. I'm on academic probation! -_-;

You disgust me! How can you be brilliant and do so well, then wallow?

When I'm really feeling down and out, though, I watch anime and I have a tendency to watch Howl's Moving Castle, which is among my favorites. I love the art and love watching it in French. I have the novel. Story wise, of course the book it better, but visually HMC is jut fun to watch. As is Advent Children.

Here, here, I'll get you a card. a-sh-i-t-a-r-i-a
Ace of Swords

The Swords represent intelligence and the Ace of Swords is a card of victory.

 

[ashitaria]

You disgust me! How can you be brilliant and do so well, then wallow?

Do well? I don't really know anything that I did well in, except perhaps the GPA of 3.7 (this term), as if that's a big accomplishment.
A 4.0 GPA and college scholarships is something that perhaps everyone is striving for, so brilliant is not the word to describe me. And not to mention that a 4.0 GPA is something that can be easily attained assuming that I work hard and I hand in work. The people who get a 4.0 GPA are usually not the smart people but the hard-working ones. The ones who are smart are the ones who score super high on the SAT test. And I haven't taken the SAT test, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't score well, or at least high.

In any case though, I'll listen to some music and watch some movies and read some books. It might help.

Ace of swords, eh? I think I'll look it up. Does it exist in real life?

Note: My music tastes are limited to Japanese-pop. I'm just weird that way.


@Flow,
Nice music.

And good news, I managed to get at least 14 out of 20 questions right on the finals Geography test today, despite studying last minute (~10 mins). There goes my A in geography, on the plus side, at least I don't have a C. Oh, and if it wasn't for those notes sitting at the bottom of the recycle bin, I don't know what I would have done...*peep*

 

[flow]

Note: My music tastes are limited

That's a bummer, man.

 

[ashitaria]

That's a bummer, man.

Sorry, dude.

 

[flow]

No worries. J-Pop can be exciting, sometimes.

 

[ashitaria]

No worries. J-Pop can be exciting, sometimes.

You really are an audiophile, aren't you?

 

[Kuu]

I've been so philosophical these days.

You make it sound as if it were a bad thing


I had an exciting conversation very recently... apparently some ideas that have been stirring inside my mind for the past two years are shared by some other people I know, and it might have just begun to gather enough mass to coalesce into an actual project. We're frustrated and disturbed about our city's lack of culture, the university's inefficacy and bureaucracy, and about other students' and laypeople's general ignorance and disinterest in design, architecture and the city. We've come to realize that this is never gonna change on its own unless we do something, so we've decided to leverage the power of the internet... start a blog as a gathering point and platform for discussion, hopefully we can get our fellow students and teachers to read and contribute to it and begin to create a more involved community, and perhaps attract attention from other students from local universities and even the professional community and the general populace.

It may sound a farfetched dream, but then, humanities' achievements didn't happen by themselves. I've been feeling apathetic for a long time because I could see no real way to discharge all my restlessness into something I cared about and actually had a chance to make a difference, but I think this just might actually work, so I'm willing to try.

OPEN QUESTION TO ALL READERS:
Do you know about your local architecture/city... it's history, it's new developments? I suppose most don't, and that's precisely the problem.

 

[Zero]

Yes, the Ace of Swords is a Tarot card.

Well, I certainly would be happy if my trying had paid off with a 4.0...

Sometimes there are just those lulls.

 

[Adymus]

I had a moment a few nights ago when I realized the Personality psychology model my crew and I have been developing might very well lead to the "Cure" for certain personality disorders, once it is implemented.

This excited me to no end.

 

[ashitaria]

*sigh*

Unlike you guys, I'm the only INTP in the area, or at least the only non-ignorant INTP in the area. Paul, the other INTP in my area, talks about things that I find semi-interesting (which by itself is a remarkable feat), but compared to you guys though....

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find someone I can talk to about all the ideas and thoughts in my head.

Maybe then I'll find life exciting.

 

[floccinaucci]

flow thank you for the awesome music! I'm an audiophile and musician, and I get really excited from hearing most music. my mp3 player on shuffle goes from eazy-e and circa survive, to the fall of troy and now the morning benders(can't wait for that new album)

 

[Sparrow]

Olympics, watching Canadian athlete win a medal

 

[Cavallier]

The last time I ran across and bibliophile like myself made me really excited. There are a lot of people out there who read heavily (in one or two particular genres) but not many who make the same mental connections I do. Like when I was watching 28 Days Later and I kept noticing the correlations between that movie and Heart of Darkness by Conrad. (The ending where the guy goes "native" was not lost on me.) Nobody knew what I was talking about so I just kept my mouth shut. A year later I ran across a guy who is a movie buff. He mentioned to me that the creator of 28 Days Later intentionally drew from Heart of Darkness when he made the movie. I was so excited to discover that my notions had been correct. I hardly ever meet people who have read as widely as I have and can make these kind of connections.

Really, just meeting people who can keep up with my mental amalgamations are a delight. (They are weird and convoluted after all and I don't expect people to understand my nonsense.) I tend to topic jump a lot and when I start free associating (which is one of my favorite past-times) I lose people quickly...but every once in a while I find somebody who gives me a knowing smirk at something I've said and I'm tickled for hours.

Another example: I saw a guy fighting with the keypad lock on his van the other day and I said, "that will definitely not work for my zombie apocalypse plan". (Talking about Heart of Darkness earlier today made me think about 28 days later which made me think about my zombie apocalypse plan which made me think about the fact that I'd need to be able to get into a vehicle quickly which made me think about the keypad lock guy.<---seems fairly logical yes?)

 

[Adamastor]

@Kuu
Answering to your question... I noticed it too, it disappoints me (or rather give the feeling of "it would be much cooler if it wasn't the other way around"), nonetheless I do nothing about it.

Well, I do not look for information of these kind with hungry eyes or anything, but I am always open to retain interesting bits of information that I came across (For example pictures from the past century's streets, houses, the general city's development course). It's more of curiosity than anything and its far from my current points of interest...

EDIT: Oh yeah,
recently I have been quite excited with math, olympiad math precisely... I have never studied or prepared for math olympiads or anything and with my "sheer power" I couldn't do much about it, but now I came across some amazing resources (mathlinks, AoPS) and brilliants books (The art and craft of problem solving), even though I am a bad reader (for some odd reason I can't finish a book, if I don't read it in one go or something like that) I have been learning a lot with these resources, what is exciting because I have never done it before (I have always struggled against problems on my own) and now I got the feeling that that is somewhat like cheating, because I have begun to face and actually solve problems I wouldn't know how to began doing it.

I guess it feels that I am cheating because now I know how to do it and part of the challenge is somewhat dimmer now... It do wonders to self-esteem though

Another thing that excites me is that I have been learning so much that the small-world got bigger, I kinda of got a glimpse of things I am getting the hang of and that were written by others, things that were written by other that I couldn't do, I wouldn't even think of! In these situation "Brilliant! " comes out naturally.

Perhaps it's just my egocentric world coming to an end... I have been quite interested in people lately too.

 

[pjoa09]

learning my personality type?

 

[citrusbreath95]

To OP, I have the same issues, and I really need a challenge of some sort, and a challenge that actually applies to one of my interests, I've been trying to sort of randomize my life a bit, I recently started making homemade parody commercials, my most recent one is a device that unties knots in your shoelaces (don't ask), the "device" is a toothpick , but I actually got some kids from my neighborhood to help me, I needed extras, and it's a rather funny video, and I'm actually proud of the stupid thing.

 

[Dormouse]

If you use a stethoscope, you can hear your muscle fibres contract.

I also tried using a voltmeter to detect the myoelectric impulse, but that didn't work.