Do we all want the same thing or do we all want different things.
I can never work it out. .
Some people like to dive - in sky or water - but I rather think that it is just looking at fish.
And I tend to prefer mine battered.
Some people like to bungee but that's just short lived terror, surely. And as hobbies and interests go, one that only last 20 second comes up well, a little short for me. Hardly something to take a pride in learning about or mastering. And yet when you ask people what they would like to do in their spare time....
As for trusting your life to the mathematics of a bleached haired shark-tooth wearing Australian well, I am afraid I am a broken record on that one.
Don't we want to appreciate things with a sense of excitement which is really... thrilling ...in a way that is challenging, all encompassing, both in the moment and yet connecting with the universe in some sort of sunday supplement metaphysical way.
Maybe it's video games - or is that phrase just showing my age. I am sure they are brilliant but their universe is pre-ordained, pre-discovered. Created by programming gods. You are discovering someone else's universe. A colourful journey perhaps and a fine privilege.
But thrilling?
Is it really thrilling?
Is it?
Maybe it's gambling or lust or sex.
Or dance .
Or knitting.
Or reading.
Or Coronation Street.
Maybe it's bikes. Or cars. Maybe you have diesel or kerosene running through your veins. There are certainly hard-wired engineers in the world who I think come close with their passions to the sort of excitement that I am struggling to define.
So the question to you is this.
What thrills you?
The question to me is totally different of course.
What thrills me?
