I guess as adults we learn our own ways to inspire ourselves. It's just harder as a kid to force us to be interested in something. I even remember as a mid-teen, the twin towers being bombed and i was like 'woahhhh' because everyone else was. But I had never heard of them before or the politics behind it so I was basically feigning interest in the event until it stopped being on the news (the footage was interesting no doubt, but I couldn't say with honesty I found it tragic or anything, I was far too detached)
Is that normal? As an adult that empathy and compassion is a lot more developed... and so is, therefore, my interest in History