KT67 wrote:
Most people bore me.
They wake up, go to work, come home, watch TV or if it's Friday or Saturday go to the pub, have a weekend 'off' where they go shopping to the supermarket & go to the match. Their opinions come from daytime TV.
They are born, go to school, have a bit of time in life where they get drunk, meet a girl, settle down, get married, have kids, have grandkids.
Why? They might as well all be AI robots. Never when I talk to them do I actually hear either depth or originality.
Differences are:
People who are disabled
Aspies
Artists
People who work for themselves
People who are LGBT
People who go to uni for long enough & study humanities which opens up another side of the world to them so they're more conscious of the world and its possibilities
People like my parents with an age gap or something
First and second generation immigrants who've seen another country
People who have been unemployed a long time
People who were ill in their youth
People who are so unusual I can't imagine them right now
But that's not most people. Most people are tedious. As individuals they wouldn't be. It's just the same cycle of a person trotted out over and over again like on a factory production line. And honestly? Yeah I do find it hard to have empathy with someone when they're that much like everyone else and that boring. Social media makes most people seem tedious.
It is quite interesting the list you give. I have found some who have been unemployed a long time to be genuinely fascinating and tallented people... But somehow they are often overlooked as somehow employers tend to look for "Mr or Mrs Average". I habe had some amazing conversations in the past by some who are close to retiring, but are unemployed and have had amazing experiences in past employment.