I'm not sure if this is just normal for someone in their 70s or if it means I'm a head case.

[nuxvomica]

64. What you've experienced is the gift of wonder

Children have it but as we grow older life becomes too complicated and distracting to enjoy this gift. It is sometimes called the experience of being in the now. Blake and Wordsworth wrote about it:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour

from "Auguries of Innocence"
By William Blake


There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

from "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
By William Wordsworth