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the body's gleeful confusion that fear and joy share the exact same heartbeat
means Feeling a lively, energized eagerness about something, often with a faster pulse and a hard time sitting still.
from From the Latin 'excitare,' to call out or rouse, built from 'ex-' (out) and 'citare' (to set in motion, to summon) — a cousin of 'cite' and 'recite.' The image is of stirring something awake or summoning it forth, which is exactly what the word still does to a body that won't settle down.
- chemical twin
- Adrenaline fuels both terror and thrill alike
- reframe trick
- Saying 'I'm excited' beats calming down before stress
- latin root
- From excitare, meaning to call out or rouse
- pupil tell
- Eyes dilate to drink in more of the moment
for instance
apollo 11 moon landing — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin landed on the moon on july 20, 1969, watched by 600 million people
titanic iceberg collision — 1500 people died when the 'unsinkable' ship hit an iceberg on april 15, 1912