“I am very well this morning. We don’t have to wear a
mask.”
The barista who served me made a similar comment, then
added. “Isn’t it strange that we are excited about something like this, about
returning to normal?”
That got me thinking. Yes, it is exciting. Pursuing
that thinking, I arrived at the next question:
What gets us excited about life? What makes a normal
life exciting? What stirs us, what rouses us to participate in (normal) life?
Literally, excite means to set something in motion
in an outward direction. What feelings do we wish to express? What internal
emotions are stirred within us that we wish to show to the world?
Excitement in our contemporary world tends to suggest
something we are looking forward to eagerly, or that something we have witnessed
or experienced brings up feelings of joy, delight, and wonder.
In its literal sense excitement could also be an
expression of sadness or even something stronger – revulsion maybe.
Whatever it may be, to be excited is to be able to express
our full gamut of emotions. When we do this, we enter our world fully present
to what it has to offer, and how we decide to experience it.
So, what excites you? What feelings spread through your
body when you first wake from sleep? What emotions do you feel when you
interact with another person – perhaps the barista at your local café? What
emotions does the aroma of the coffee, or its taste, allow you to experience?
Such excitement is available to us every day,
not just those days when we head back to normalcy.
Perhaps I will shift my greeting from one of “How are
you?” to one of “What excites you today?”
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