I know for me it does. I now have to think of things to create excitement. I did too much too fast.

No, but I find that my threshold of what I consider "thrilling" has lowered somewhat. Used to be a 70 mph rollercoaster with a few loops thrown in was thrilling. Now getting a real good parking spot is reason enough to be thrilled.

NEVER! It just gets harded to do stuff and that sucks and I not even that old! I just want the energy of a 5 year old again!

so far, no! i have gotten bored with some aspects of life, but i find new things to entertain me all the time. :)

No I don't thinkso I am less shocked but there are thrills in simple things and not the bigs things when you get older

I certainly think so. As I have gotten older the build up to holidays such as Christmas has become a bit less endearing for me

Nope. I know how to get my kicks out of life, the minute it becomes too flaccid I kick it up a notch. Perhaps eventually it will thrill me less, but to simple minded folk like myself, the littlest thing is thrilling. I still get a thrill from having a balloon for instance.

Not at all, though my thrills may be simpler, but I was never a super thrill kind of gal. I find every sunset thrilling. Each meal can be an excitement. I love meeting new people, going to new places, and that something I didn't do much as a kid or teen. I hae always suffered from "around-the-bend-itis" and that keeps me going!

Yeah. I'm only seventeen and I realize that. I also went through the crisis that most people go through at forty at the age of fifteen. I'm hopeless.

For me I just see things different and I'm more laid back - The thrill is still there and I react with overpowering joy - I just pay more attention to my surroundings and I'm more cautious - And I do things from my heart not so much on a whim

Oh hell no. I find thrills everyday. You have to be with the right person and it makes it all that much more exciting.

yeah birthdays and christmas are just another day. I can remeber when I was little in january I would start telling people my b-day was close and I use to love the whole moth of december. I wish I was a kid again for that reason.

No! It just gets more thrilling. It used to be that I'd be thrilled and excited if I got a new toy, or took the train instead of the car. Now, those things don't thrill me as much, but a larger amount of other things have taken their place. Now, I can take pleasure in 'smaller' things, like my surroundings, the people I'm with, the things I can do now that I have previously been too young to do... All in all, I think life is much more thrilling.

I don't know but it already does and i cant see how that could change so i think it will be as bored as now if not more.

Yeah, sorry, kids, it's like I remember a just-graduated college buddy coming back to visit my Senior year and telling me, in HS and college your ups and downs are "like this" (finger waving wildly up and down in a pronounced sinusoidal wave), but in real life it's "like this" (finger describing a much-dampened sinusoidal wave).

No, quite the opposite in fact. Ironically enough, when I was younger I got *Less* thrill out of life because I didn't have the courage in me to follow the lunatic whims that provide most of my entertainment and thrill in life. Now I commonly go out and on long evening walks and glean some thrill out of whims and actions as simple as say... Spreading strawberry icing on a cinder block for no apparent reason. Not to mention the fact that now that I'm older and my attention span is (Slightly) longer, I can get more thrill out of simple things such as staring at rocks for hours on end, or idly entertaining fantastically impossible thoughts. I find that I get more thrill out of life now because I understand it better than I did when I was younger. Who knows, perhaps I'll eventually pass the threshhold into being completely jaded. But for the time being, I can glean a cheap thrill out of just about anything.

More exciting stuff happens to you as you get older, but your emotions are much more reserved. So it's kind of a toss up. I'd say for the most part the most fun you'll ever have is as a kid

Nope! My life seems to be getting more exciting as I age... Mind you, I am only 21 right now...and it only makes sense that a 21 year olds lfe is a tad more exciting than an 8 year olds.

Absolutely! It sucks. I think it does for any intelligent person over, say 40, which I am, unfortunately. I hate being this age. I suspect the majority of the people who've answered this question are still young, but even my daughter, who was 21 this year, says that life isn't nearly as thrilling as when she was, say, 17. As the years pass, you lose all the good things - looks, fun, freedom, good health, lots of time to do things by yourself or with friends, and accumulate all the bad ones - grey hair and wrinkles, responsibilities and bills to pay, often a dead-end job and boring marriage, poor health... For anyone who feels the same, I've compiled an anthology of quotations from poems, songs and prose works which all say basically that life after a certain age is wearisome. It's called 'The Agony Abides' and I hope it will be published within the next six to twelve months. I've dedicated it to a close friend of mine (Lyndon Morgans) who thinks exactly the same as I do, and, being a singer/songwriter, he's written some superb lyrics of the kind I revel in. Just a few examples:- 'I'm not afraid, 'cause no afterlife could ever suck as much as this one did', 'Living's just as hard as dying', 'It's like I've always lived in mourning, though for what I couldn't say, 'A church bell rings like it's just going through the motions, kind of like me and my life', 'She stands staring out at the stars wondering at the point of it all' and, the lyric which perhaps best answers this question: 'Kid it's tough, best you don't ever grow up'. He's written LOADS more brilliant stuff like that, so if you're interested in sublimely melancholy lyrics like this (accompanied by gorgeous, dark, poignant music) buy his band's albums! The band's called Songdog and the albums are all available on Amazon! (Sorry, this isn't meant to be an ad!, but it's just to let intelligent people who feel as Lyndon and I do about life know about this exquisite music, which, ironically, can really help - a thousand times more than chirpy, cheerful, upbeat stuff does).

No, life becomes more precious. It's people and their antics that thrill less. You get the feeling that you've seen and heard it all when it comes to the human race.

Life is more exciting as I have gotten older. I am open to sharing my thoughts and actions with everyone of every age. The choice is ours. Get up and get going or sit down and vegetate. I would rather fly than be stuck.

NO it just keeps getting better and better

I just try to keep things interesting and exciting. I don't really believe in God and I don't really believe in longterm love so all I really have is hedonism. Strangely, this seems to be enough for me.

Yes it does especially when your dreams have gone.

No way if you have something to do and look forward to. The goal of any human being is to look for happiness but it is all so fleeting.So some people have goals of reaching the state of enlightenment or seeking ultimate happiness or as some call it self realization or liberation.I came to this realm only so that I could take a few towards that lofty goal.So life is full of thrills and chills also.

totally, i just want someone to rub ben-gay on my joints.