How to get excitement into your life?

[orly]

Primarily, I'm interested in hobbies/activities that could be pursued over an extended period of time. As opposed to one-off kind of things like skydiving or bungie jumping.

Also let's limit things to relatively mature things, as opposed to say picking fights with people.

Any suggestions?

 

[Colin O'Brien]

one thing that comes to mind is learning an instrument.. a lot of work but the rewards are amazing

 

[Gaucho]

Personally, for me, I am always busy and have a few hobbies I love.

Trading.

Soccer.

Documentaries or history books.

Boxing.

I spend numerous hours every week engaged in these activities. Some, more than others, but these are 4 areas of which bring excitement into my life, along with my family of course.

 

[3countriesPlan]

I play pool, study languages, thinking bout learning to sing and also dance.. and of course you can think about martial arts.

 

[Davezz]

Football some call it zzzzoccer (with friends) its social fun and ure tired when you get home

ore bicycle long trips its so nice and u feel fresh when u get home bicycle can be pursued over long time to.. when u get very fit in bycycling u can take a bicycle trip with a friend in another country ore something really nice

 

[comic_relief]

cycling. Buy a little ten speed to start out on.

If you like it, then you can either fix it up OR buy a newer and better bike. I recently completed a 340 mile PA bicycle tour and cannot wait to go out on my next one.

Also another one is dancing. I do swing dancing.

The final one that I do is Martial Arts.

Any of those are really cool to have.

comic_relief

 

[redspicyflag]

G G G Guitar!!!

It's fun to learn and productive

plus once you learn you can perform

 

[Nygard]

Martial Arts! No dbout.

 

[Effington]

Gotta go with an instrument. It's not exhausting like sports, you can do it at home, by yourself, and the ladies seem to like it. I have some guitars hanging up, and it is a definite sell when people walk in for the first time.

 

[speakeasy]

One day soon, I'm going to take a pen and paper, spend a whole day laying on the beach and write down 100 things I want to do before I die. To answer your question, may be something like that is a start.

 

[Huffman]

Damn guys how do you cope with these cycling tours?
Biggest tour I've done was ~150 miles and my ass hurt like no tomorrow

(the shorts... they do nothing)

 

[comic_relief]

One day soon, I'm going to take a pen and paper, spend a whole day laying on the beach and write down 100 things I want to do before I die. To answer your question, may be something like that is a start.

I did that, and it takes about three to four hours to complete. It is very worth it because in the beginning it is stupid sh!t, but by the end you just talk about what is really important.

For me, it is travelling and staying with family.

comic_relief

 

[comic_relief]

Damn guys how do you cope with these cycling tours?
Biggest tour I've done was ~150 miles and my ass hurt like no tomorrow

(the shorts... they do nothing)

I'll start another post about that instead of hijacking this thread.

comic_relief

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Damn guys how do you cope with these cycling tours?
Biggest tour I've done was ~150 miles and my ass hurt like no tomorrow

(the shorts... they do nothing)

1. Saddle
2. Shorts
3. Chamois Butt'R

 

[MooseGod]

For me it's usually flying...it's kinda like Fight Club in that you really don't give a damn what anybody thinks once you get on the ground because YOU JUST FLEW A FREAKING AIRPLANE!!!! I mean really, how many people do that?

Guitar is always fun too, mainly just hammering on chords to complement my singing.

...and projects are good to have. Car restoration, 4-wheel drive buildups, putting junk motorcycles back together, building furniture or home improvement projects. Hell, build plastic models if nothing else.

I've always wanted to try skydiving and hang-gliding...or build myself an ultralight aircraft.

 

[djtdot]

Ummm play Total War. Will keep you engaged for nights. And it will help you to develop interest in histroy. Atleast that happened to me.

 

[seagull]

I find any team sport or sport where you can interact socially with people will bring some excitement to your life. As opposed to activities that you would do solo.

Also, if you like watching a particular sport, then getting a season ticket and going to games with friends can bring some drama to your life.

 

[02hero]

To the OP,
Give this a try, just say YES to everything, do it for a month and see where it takes you......more exitement guaranteed

 

[thederekeffect1]

Any suggestions?

Snap into a Slim Jim. Ooooh Yeaaaah.

 

[Arizona iced tea]

racing gokarts! it aint cheap, but damn its fun!