As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
Geysers. My in-laws live in a geothermal area and there are active geysers that come and go not far from their home. I don’t often spot one erupting, but it’s exciting when I do.
Went to Iceland in November. First stop was Geysir, located near Gulfoss. After waiting for twenty or thirty we learned it rarely goes off anymore and the new one is an additional hike. I’m still bummed I didn’t get to see it go off.
I am the same, honestly. I was never a horse person, but every time I see horses when driving to work across the countryside, I shout “horsies!” out loud, and my day gets a tiny bit better.
I saw two dragonflies on top of each other and my girlfriend goes “it’s killing it!” and I am like “nah that’s probably them having sex”… I look over and the dragonfly is probably 35% done eating the other dragonfly head. Gf was definitely right on that one…
I’m just happy not to live in a world with dragonflies any larger. Dragonflies the size of a rat would probably be dangerous for most pets, and by the size of a cat you’d be waking up with a dragonfly eating your arm.
At this scale though they’re just awesome. I have some wetland on my property, so it’s quite often in the summer, that I’ll drop what I’m doing and just wander off after a dragonfly.
Buying and selling computer parts. I know it doesn’t sound childish but I don’t really make much, it’s like 0.01 percent of my salary I get paid as a software developer.
Random people call me, I meet them, they buy some random PC parts and it just feels nice.
I have sold hundreds of PC parts for about 2 years. Customers are polite all the time, I know it is unexpected but that’s how it is, I have never had any nasty encounters.
I had fears about them running away, but this also never happened. Regarding defects, there was few occasions where the next day they called me and asked for replacement. Usually I sell SSDs, so out of about 100 of them I got back 5. when I retested them 2 of them was working and I sold them again :D 3 dead SSDs are laying on the shelf, not sure what to do with them…
I love just sitting and watching the rain. The fresh smell after a strong rain. The way everything gets cooler and darker just before to end in a myriad of colors afterwards.
I adore mechanical stuff that looks too complicated to comprehend on the first look, old sewing machines, old typewriters, mechanical calculators, knitting machines, clocks and watches, marble tracks etc. I was abysmal in school math, today I’m collecting old mechanical and electronic calculators and slide rules (and use them & show 'em to the kids at schools) Scales and maps are another obsession. Maybe because we were too poor for mechanical toys like Meccano or better Lego technic when I was a kid? Btw I loved the sesame street episode with the what-happens-next-machine as a very young kid. Then again, my wife says I have mild ADHD or something in that direction, idk.
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