What Fascinates and Amazes You?

[fuzzybuddy]

My grand children are 9 months (boy), 5 year old girl and a 15 year old girl. I am always speaking of how wonderful it is to see these different stages of life and how different each phase of life is. The newbie still innocent and unaffected by the world, the five year old just starting to be influenced by the other little ones around her and the fifteen year old experiencing teen angst. The great part is I am always with them, except for the teen, she's always in her room watching videos on her phone or texting friends, She is a lovely wonderful girl. Tough age for most kids.

I liked how you mentioned the life stages as we get older. The one that cracks me up is a 11- 12 year old will go to the fair holding his parent's hands. A 13 year old is totally mortified to be seen with his parents.

 

[WheatenLover]

I am amazed by just about everything, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. Even the amount of dishes left in the sink when my daughter
cooks. Whichever dog I've had or have likes to lie in the grass with me on warm nights and look at the sky. Cloudbursts fascinate me. Never experienced one until I moved to PA. They are fun to dance in, especially with a dog.

People amaze me most of all. I am endlessly curious about them. No one is boring - they may seem to be; they are not. When I was much younger, my mom told me to stop "interviewing" people. She told me how to strike up a conversation, because what I was doing likely made people uncomfortable. For one thing, they didn't know I was just gathering information, with zero inclination to disseminate it.

Being outside is fascinating. There are all sorts of things to discover and learn.

I don't give much thought to the universe - are there aliens, etc., except in a casual way. There is too much to know to be able to fully appreciate it, I think. While I am interested, lots of other topics are ahead of the universe on my list.

And, of course, dogs interest me. I don't have cats any more, but they interest me. One of my favorites is Blue - a huge tomcat. He mostly favors me, my friend who owns him, and lady cats who live in barns. He nibbles on me with his teeth, but doesn't hurt me and isn't hungry. I wonder why he does that. He also does all the usual cat affection things. If he were a person, he would be a boxer or a football player.

 

[dko1951]

On a relative scale, I'd rate near the highest levels of the tendency to be fascinated by nature and complexities. Each of us as we age, develop, learn, educate ourselves, by the process of neural plasticity, create what we become as our brains connects neural paths, and chemical structures depending on what we do and experience. That is why I've spent fair amounts of time over decades as an adult studying science, especially natural sciences, and technology instead of more common leisure activities like, watching the boob tube, playing video games, and myriad other pursuits people fill their lives with. That is not to say I also do some of those things in balance but rather far less that average nor that those with such pursuits are misguided or wasting their time.

The more one understands this world, this universe, this existence, the more interesting and fascinating it all can become to our creaturely intelligent entity minds. And of those things I study, the physical nature of our energy, matter, space, time, organic life existence is so vast and complex that I could happily live into eternity experiencing it here on our incredibly unique and precious blue water world with its 4,540,000,000 years of physical and biological evolution.

The less a person understands what their eyes are looking at, the less they will tend to be fascinated. As an example, consider the behavior of many that visit Yosemite Valley. After driving into the world class valley on the one-way loop road, the first place many stop is at the Bridal Fall view. People get out of their vehicles and gawk at all the extraordinary features, 3 world class falls and El Capitan. Telling is how long many do so. Numbers becomes impatient after just a couple minutes as though they are wondering what they are supposed to be doing beyond a few gawking looks. Of course many in this smartphone era quickly snap a couple photos and then a selfee. I saw it, now what else? Soon they are back in their car driving off to Yosemite Village where they spend most of their day, not visiting the park's sights, not hiking at all, but rather watching other people at the village, joining them at restaurants and shops, and probably at some point taking a single free open air guided bus trip around the valley. Why? Because it all might as well be an abstract painting given little in their head to relate any of it to.

I can still remember the awe I experienced the first and the every time thereafter when entering that valley. Breathtaking. You are spot on with your analogy.

 

[katlupe]

These two creatures amazed me every day! In so many ways they are alike, yet at the same time....different. That is the way of everything if you think about it.

 

[Lee]

I amazed that a small bird such as a wren can make that much racket......ooops, I meant singing bird songs.

 

[Chet]

The images from the Hubble and James Webb telescopes.

 

[dko1951]

I amazed that a small bird such as a wren can make that much racket......ooops, I meant singing bird songs.

Not to mention the crows every morning. I suppose one can find their constant speak fascinating when one realizes how amazing it is the way they communicate, but seriously, at 5:30 am.

 

[Right Now]

Of all things, it's watching the sky at night with thousands of stars seeming to simply BE there. In my entire life, I never lose the wonder and awe of our skies, and our universe.

 

[dko1951]

Of all things, it's watching the sky at night with thousands of stars seeming to simply BE there. In my entire life, I never lose the wonder and awe of our skies, and our universe.

Many years ago, driving from Oregon to California at night, I pulled into a vista spot to stretch my legs. Nothing around, only the mountains and the sky. I looked up at the stars and was stuck by the vastness of it all and felt a feeling I had never felt before. I felt small and insignificant realizing in that moment I am nothing in this enormous never ending universe. Not even a speck of sand in the big scheme of it all. It made me feel a twinge of fear for some reason. When I revisit that moment in my mind, I can feel it all again. I sometimes recall a song that had a line "we are but a fluke of the universe". I don't recall the song itself, but it always makes me smile. And please, all of you that want to have a God talk, please save it. Thanks.

 

[Brookswood]

I ate two hot dogs today, the first ones I have eaten in ages. And I didn't even know this was Hot Dog Day.

 

[Lee]

I still get amazed at the first snowfall.

 

[timoc]

What Fascinates and Amazes You?​

Now this always irritates me, the way the cream is always at the top of a bottle of milk, and even if you shake the hell out of that bottle, the cream stubbornly always comes back to the top.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I've been thinking about this thread, and I want to change my answer. What amazes me is the sameness throughout the world. Because everybody and his brother has an internet connected camera, we get to see others' homes. You can't tell if the home is in Columbia, France, the UK, or Denmark. In the US, there's a channel which shows fly overs of the 50 States. It's hard to tell one city from another- a bunch of tall buildings surrounded by acres and acres of homes. Plus, it's the same type of neighborhoods in city after city. We shop at the same Walmart, we eat at the same McDonalds. Then it hits you, if we're all the same, why are we fighting?

 

[Judycat]

Standing at the extreme outer edge of our galaxy and staring into deep space. Seeing that bright thread that runs through all of nature.

 

[Pinky]

Seeing the night sky in Australia, the stars and constellations look so much closer. Standing under the Southern Cross, in the complete darkness of a caravan park .. it took my breath away.

 

[Nathan]

I ate two hot dogs today, the first ones I have eaten in ages. And I didn't even know this was Hot Dog Day.

I ate two hot dogs for lunch. Pure garbage but I loved every bite.

 

[jujube]

Thermos jugs......they keep hot things hot and cold things cold! HOW DO THEY KNOW WHICH ONE???

OK, it's an old joke but I couldn't resist.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Sorry, but there are just so many things that amaze me. I'm easily amused. It blows me away when people speak two languages seamlessly. X talks to Y in German, and immediately talks to Z in French. I don't know how they do that.

 

[Tish]

With me, it's Space, Nature, Archeology, and the Oceans.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

@Chet "The images from the Hubble and James Webb telescopes." Yesss!
@Nathan "Yes, that keeps me awake all night in utter disbelief as well. " I love it when you make a funny!
@Janice "The Pacific Ocean" How I forgot to specifically mention oceans, I don't know because the Atlantic Ocean is a source of peace and awe for me. I feel even closer to God when I'm there. I could sit on the balcony or boardwalk looking at the ocean all day...especially love seeing the boats go by. Theses views are from our timeshare balcony and the boardwalk just outside the resort.

 

[oldman]

What fascinates me?

How a 475,000 airplane gets off the ground and flies at 37,000 feet in the air. I think it’s amazing the amount of thrust these engines can produce. I have to hand it to all of the propulsion engineers. They really understand Newton’s third law on action and reaction. Remember when we used to hear in science class back in high school, “For every action, there is a reaction?”

Although I understand how it happens, it still fascinates me. If only those Wright Brothers knew what they started.

 

[squatting dog]

How I'm still breathing.

 

[oldman]

Because you are a strong man. Anyone can bail out of life, but staying in it and putting up with all the b.s. from day to day takes a strong person. You are that man. Even though we are old, we still have responsibilities and people that depend on us, even if it is to be here for them. You would be missed if you were to leave here.