get interested
Examples
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.
I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.