Do you have or have you had an exciting life?

[TheGeoffLinton]

Just that really. Or maybe what people would consider an interesting life? Anything that’s out of the ordinary.

I don’t think my life is exciting (although obviously it has it’s moments because I make excitement happen rather than waiting for it).
Friends think my childhood was exciting. I think it was fairly abusive.
If life was always exciting/interesting it would become dull.

@DuckDuckNo

I used to have an exciting life. Lived on three continents, travelled all the time, spent times in war zones and courtrooms and conflict areas. Saw all kinds of wonders, space shuttle launches, what have you.

Now I am a boring mama in the suburbs.

Defence or national security agencies ?

Not any more but pre-children I was an archaeologist and worked all over the world - including Honduras, Belize, Mexico, Fiji, Spain, and the Caribbean. I have had a book published and once re-discovered a lost city in a jungle in Central America. Now I am a boring suburban mum of two, but I actually love my life now as much as I did then :)

NC with my parents. Moved out at 17. Been married 3 times, travelled the world, lived and worked in 3 different countries. Well educated - funded uni and PG study by working in a strip club. Partied hard in the 90s. Dated older and younger guys.

Now approaching 50 and apart from about to buy a holiday home in Ibiza, I live a fairly tame life with Dh, dc and my dogs in a rural village and have a stable well paid career.

@exarchaeologist

Not any more but pre-children I was an archaeologist and worked all over the world - including Honduras, Belize, Mexico, Fiji, Spain, and the Caribbean. I have had a book published and once re-discovered a lost city in a jungle in Central America. Now I am a boring suburban mum of two, but I actually love my life now as much as I did then :)

Is or was their any lara croft/Stargate sg1 discovering the gate as and example, type moments or those under an NDA ?

Next question, is it more slowly digging ect or is it more national treasure and finding the templar treasure vault ect ?

I must admit not my best questions.

Childhood terrifying, foster care, death of a parent and involved some 'names' I saw on the tv later.
20's sex work, uni, travel, money, names I see on the TV. Clubbing, drugs, fun. Until my first child.
30s kids and depression, anxiety, slowly losing contact with everyone and ending up in an abusive relationship
40s I'm hoping will be spent at home bored out of my mind, didn't expect the poverty but yeah I've had the excitement and don't miss it.

Bits I will be able to tell my kids and bits I won't. But I've done enough.

I get excited over a nice bit of lamb now

No more hard than anything else.

I travelled a lot as a child, to places people didn't usually go (holiday in Sierra Leone anyone?)

I had an interesting career in my 20s/30s.

I was an amateur (classical) singer and have performed with many well-known conductors, orchestras and soloists at top venues.

Now I live abroad but my life is quite boring now as I have mobility issues.

I’ve dived in a bait ball, with feeding sharks. Was truly amazing.

I had an ostensibly exciting life when younger—lived in several different countries, did some unusual jobs, had a very wealthy boyfriend, published a book. Now I am married to the love of my life and we like gardening, walking and going to National Trust places. I am hugely happier now than during the ‘exciting’ years, plus I have found that routine and stability is much better for my health.

@Hawkins001 sadly where ever you are working it’s more like Time Team than Indiana Jones! It can be quite painstaking work especially when working with burials or dealing with soil/pollen analysis. But there were lots of exciting discoveries and it’s pretty amazing to know that you are uncovering objects that were last touched by someone 1000 years ago - and it’s rewarding detective work figuring out past human behaviour.

I have heard rumours though that the US state department sometimes recruits archaeologists to gather intel as they have a legitimate excuse to be in really obscure parts of random countries. But all my work
was done via academic institutions or non profits.

'Exciting' to me, yes, but probably not to others.
I live on the edge of a national park with a view of mountains out of my window. My weekends are spent hiking, road cycling and mountain biking from my front door. My DH regularly goes wild camping. Last summer I went wild swimming in the river near our home.
Every evening, from April to October, I watch bats flying infront of our living room window. I go to sleep hearing an owl.
Having grown up in a little suburban town nowhere near here, with parents who weren't particularly outdoorsy, I find my life exciting.