How interesting do you think your life is?

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By interesting, I mainly mean easy to talk about. It’s not necessarily good or bad. I’d rate the average person on the street about a five. Not the most interesting, but it’s not too bad for them to talk about their life. They can talk about their job, their family, significant other, activities they do and plans for their weekend. Not the most exciting, but interesting enough to keep a conversation going and not be bored to death. When you’re at a five it’s easy to answer generic small talk questions. At a six or so it’s even easier.

A ten is an extreme. I’m talking celebrities or people with amazing accomplishments or people who went through obvious hardship. Not necessarily an ideal either. I’d say six to eight is ideal. Interesting enough for people to be engaged with you and not struggle with small talk, but still some sense of stability.

I’d usually rate myself a two. I put in a lot of effort to stay at this level. I make sure I leave the house and spend time around people. There’s nothing truly going on in my life, but I like to pretend there is. It somewhat works, but when people ask any questions it all falls apart. I’d say I’m a depressed artist if I had to label myself. There’s moments in my life where I sort of feel content. It’s just lame AF to talk about those moments. I don’t have the worst life, but it sure is boring. I’d say the average person who says their life isn’t interesting is probably at a 4 or 5. Unless you’re dealing with chronic illnesses or being stuck at home all day you’re probably at least a 4. I don’t have any regular job due to being disabled, so that instantly makes my life impossible to talk about. I really can’t be open about my life to most people. I have to really work hard at avoiding that topic.

Talking about my art is far more interesting to talk about than my actual life. I have to carefully manipulate the conversation to avoid basic questions about my life. Maybe when my life is at its most interesting I might be a five or even six. Part of my issue is that people want to hear about my *life*, not my art. I don’t really have any life beyond my art. Sure I’m studying Finnish, but people completely tune me out when I mention anything about Finnish. So clearly they don’t care or consider it part of my life.

pretty subjective, isn't it?

2 gang knows what life's like.

My eternal life would be a snooze. I could weave a semi interesting memoir from my internal perspective but nothing truly remarkable or illuminating

9 as in interesting to me.

1 or 2 for most other people's interest in my life.

Interesting to talk about or interesting to me?

When I talk to someone I want to talk about the things that they are thinking about, and the things I've been thinking about. We might also mention something we did that day or that month, but that's never the most interesting thing about anyone's life. Even famous or accomplished people do mundane things like grocery shopping or laundry. And even if someone has been on a trip or written a book or been in a play or done some other pretty amazing thing, talking about that is only mildly interesting, compared to talking about ideas. Talking about the day-to-day things is only interesting to the extent that we are sharing something about our lives and therefore getting closer, so it can be both mundane and interesting at the same time.

My day-to-day life is relatively ordinary, especially since i have chronic fatigue so spend a lot of my time at home, but I do try to go to an event like an art opening or a live musical performance once or a couple times a month, and I meet a friend for lunch about once a week, usually, and I consider that fairly interesting, to me, though it's not really a conversational topic for me.

Relatively, to some, it's up to a 7.

Personally, it's a 4.
I need more novelty, not problematic old news that happens over and over and cannot be solved.

But the world giving me stuff isn't the problem, it's me not going enough for the stuff that I want. Maybe not even coloring the perceived stuff.


Hopefully I'll make my life a bit more interesting than mind numbing painful or less passive this upcoming years.

I just had to undo more whatever has been holding me back, getting rid of things in accumulation of unwanted coping behaviors and mindsets born from dealing with near constant dysregulation and discomfort.

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2 just another poor NPC no sort of defining character.

very boring admittedly.
my life is very structured, wake up, shower, have breakfast, work, come home, dinner, watch TV and browse internet, sleep

some may find it boring but i think it's comfortable

the downside is it hinders my conversational skills as i don't have much to talk about, and that's why i am shy.

My average day to day life is about as interesting as you'd expect. Sadly I'm not an actual dragon terrorising villages and sitting on a pile of hoarded gold.

I would say my life is pretty boring compared to my peers. However, a friend of mine once based a character on me, so perhaps she'd disagree with that assessment.

She would be wrong.

In retrospect, I really should've put the pieces together on that one and the fact I was completely oblivious to the fact she had a crush on me for so long... I'm an idiot. I'm definitely glad the character wasn't killed off. That would have made for an awkward conversation.

I felt almost guilty that I didn't feel the same. Especially because at the time I was too busy crushing on a straight woman. Ugh. Why does life have a sense of humour?

Another friend of mine is a minor celebrity. It's really weird witnessing him be interviewed. We jokingly give him a dramatic introduction whenever we hang out to annoy him.

Sometimes it feels like my friends are all living cool lives and I'm just here existing.

It depends on which part of my life. There have been times when my life was movie-level interesting. Perhaps for the most part, it's been boring though.

Talking about myself is not easy. Talking about the interesting bits is even more difficult. Some things are too bad to talk about, and when it comes to accomplishments, I don't like to brag. Most people probably think I'm more boring than I am because I don't talk about myself much offline.

I've usually found enough interesting things to do and think about to keep my life from getting boring, but sometimes I run out of material and then I can hardly stand the ennuie of it all until I find something to do. I'm rarely interested in the details of other people's lives unless I happen know them and to have taken in a few details about them, and then I become interested. But otherwise I see their lives as boring compared with mine.

That's "interesting" measured from my own perspective. I doubt that others would agree with my idea of what's interesting and what isn't. The problem with the OP's voting scale is that it meshes the perspectives of the individual and the world together, when they might be very different things. So I wouldn't try to make a movie about my life because although I'd probably find it a fascinating movie, nobody else would be interested. And I don't find the lives of celebrities very interesting.