THE FOOTNOTES

This?  What’s  exciting?

I’ve always been excitable, but not many things excite me. For example, I  don’t exalt  because Uconn won a basketball game, or  the Red Sox got lucky.

  But I have an experience every morning which does excite me—it’s when my wife gets out of bed and I will  know I will have her another day. That’s what I think is worth getting excited about.

  If I win a little money in the lottery, that’s nice and I am thankful, but not elated.

  On the other hand, I got excited earlier today when we received a phone call from my heart doctor saying that my recent examination showed no problems,   When I knew it was the doctor calling on a Sunday afternoon,  I  think it could have been said I was excited in a negative sort of way, but it could not have had a more positive measure of excitement.

  I guess what I am saying that I am not impervious to certain kinds of excitement but not on a  mental roller coaster of emotions. 

  Please pardon me for paraphrasing the expression I used when I worked:  “it doesn't excite me because I have to go to work Monday anyway”---I am not above making exceptions given proper stipulations of  certain excitements