Today, as I sat eating my lunch, I witnessed a young child screaming, “Look, Daddy! A fire truck!” The fire truck wasn’t running any red lights. Cars weren’t yielding. Its sirens silent. It was just a normal fire truck – fighting daily traffic instead of fires. Why was this child so excited at such a seemingly normal thing?

I soon thought about the simple things that excited me as a child. Recess. Beating my grandpa in a game of Rummy. Catching Bullhead from Turkey Creek with my cousin. A ride in the combine with my dad. Why are the things that excited me so much as a child so different twenty years later? Why is youthful excitement so mundane for an adult?

I believe it’s because we let our excitement expire. The luster wears off. New becomes current. Current becomes old. And old becomes boring. We’ve seen it before. Life becomes common.

I refuse to let my excitement expire. I am going to polish up the everyday, mundane things in my life and look at them with 6-year-old eyes.

Don’t let what excites you now expire. Start unraveling average living. Live life uncommon.