skibum wrote:
I am often not aware that everyone is not fascinated with the latest innovations of ski boot design. I don't always know when people are bored with me or my conversation. In fact, I very seldom know.
That just cracks me up. But have you ever thought about writing an article for a magazine or newspaper? OR maybe putting up a YouTube skibum channel?
I know better than to talk about any of my special interests and sometimes its so hard! One of them is kind of mainstream and my friend uses a password related to it for all of her websites, so whenever I have to do something for her and she gives me a password I have to grit my teeth really hard! Owww. Why are they so much fun to talk about?
I'm afraid that thing about if you are bored you are boring is the opposite with us. We are anything but bored with the subject, but the subjects are not interesting to everybody else.
And like man you go to a party and people talk about the most mundane stuff - I think my topics would be WAY more interesting - but I know better than to try it.
Anyway, I'm not sure ImAnAspie was talking about going on about his special interests, he may have just meant being boring in general and having nothing of interest to say. Join the human race! At the last party I went to, one of the big wigs of my company came and sat down across from me and went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about his young son who is just starting a business. Literally I thought he would never stop, it went on for like 45 minutes and then when he was done he said, Oh I just stopped by to say hi, I'm leaving now. The whole human race is hideously boring!
I've noticed that most of the people I know have a hard time talking about anything that is not part of their own life. Most people aren't remotely interested in talking about art, literature, science, or anything like that unless they can talk about their own art collection or their kid's scientific discovery or a book they just read. They can't think outside their own experience.
It really baffles me. How can you not be interested in the bigger world, and how can you function if you aren't?