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Boring

PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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I can't help but get the impression that I'm a little boring these days. I don't really party, and a lot of my thoughts these days are on adult-like things (thinking about stocks, businesses, money management, politics, etc). Feels like the only interesting thing I do is practice making funny faces.
 
JustGeorge

JustGeorge

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Snow White said:
I can't help but get the impression that I'm a little boring these days. I don't really party, and a lot of my thoughts these days are on adult-like things (thinking about stocks, businesses, money management, politics, etc). Feels like the only interesting thing I do is practice making funny faces.
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That's great! Boring people are my favorite!

Interesting folks wear me the hell out these days...
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

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Snow White said:
I can't help but get the impression that I'm a little boring these days. I don't really party, and a lot of my thoughts these days are on adult-like things (thinking about stocks, businesses, money management, politics, etc). Feels like the only interesting thing I do is practice making funny faces.
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Why would that make you boring? I think it would just make you serious.
I don't ever party, and my thoughts are always on adult-like things, but I don't consider myself boring....
Granted, my life is boring, but that does not mean I am a boring person.
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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Snow White said:
I can't help but get the impression that I'm a little boring these days. I don't really party, and a lot of my thoughts these days are on adult-like things (thinking about stocks, businesses, money management, politics, etc). Feels like the only interesting thing I do is practice making funny faces.
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Nothing wrong with boring. Boring is just fine by me.

I'm boring, too. :D
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

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JustGeorge said:
I don't know, but I know a lot of people don't relate to me very well... I assume its because I'm boring. Maybe I'm offensive? :shrug::D
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No, I don't think that's it.... It could be just because you are different from other people in certain ways, like being Hindu in the heartland of Christianity and having a lot of pets... It is the same in my case being a Baha'i and having a lot of cats but I am even more different because I was married and I never had any children, and I have no family or friends except online. I doubt I am ever going to find a man to marry because I am just too different from most men, too much out of the norm. :(
But I can only be who I am.
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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JustGeorge said:
I don't know, but I know a lot of people don't relate to me very well... I assume its because I'm boring. Maybe I'm offensive? :shrug::D
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For me, I wouldn't say that relating, or anything like that, is the problem. I just happen to have a personality where I don't "cling" onto people, so the only people who usually I do things with, are ones who kind of cling onto me.

I don't study magnets, but I guess it would kind of be like I'm saying, we might be two magnets turned in opposite directions where the force is shooting out toward the atmosphere and the free space, rather than toward each magnet?

That being said, I find it difficult to connect to RF in general. I can think of three regulars, or people who have been regulars in the past, where I could say, without a doubt, that me and them connected.
 
JustGeorge

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Trailblazer said:
No, I don't think that's it.... It could be just because you are different from other people in certain ways, like being Hindu in the heartland of Christianity and having a lot of pets... It is the same in my case being a Baha'i and having a lot of cats but I am even more different because I was married and I never had any children, and I have no family or friends except online. I doubt I am ever going to find a man to marry because I am just too different from most men, too much out of the norm. :(
But I can only be who I am.
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Surprisingly, my area's not so Christian. Yeah, there are Christians here, but I'd say this is an overwhelmingly secular area. But yes, I'm not that, either.

Honestly, I've never had another 'parent' friend. I tried to join a parenting group, but that didn't go well. We weren't well liked. I didn't watch the same shows they did, or any shows at all(that was a big discussion with the other Moms), I didn't connect of Facebook, and their toddlers were learning to talk while mine was silent and learning to pick locks. We were intentionally excluded from a few events, so I took a hint and quit showing up. So, having a family hasn't helped me socially.

I do have one in person friend, and for that I'm thankful.

But, you never know what you'll find, or where you'll find it, TB!

Snow White said:
For me, I wouldn't say that relating, or anything like that, is the problem. I just happen to have a personality where I don't "cling" onto people, so the only people who usually I do things with, are ones who kind of cling onto me.

I don't study magnets, but I guess it would kind of be like I'm saying, we might be two magnets turned in opposite directions where the force is shooting out toward the atmosphere and the free space, rather than toward each magnet?

That being said, I find it difficult to connect to RF in general. I can think of three regulars, or people who have been regulars in the past, where I could say, without a doubt, that me and them connected.
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Do you like when you meet 'clingers'? Or do you find them cumbersome?
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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JustGeorge said:
Do you like when you meet 'clingers'? Or do you find them cumbersome?
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I find they usually have a better chance connecting with me than the socially distant. Because with the amount of introvertedness I sometimes have, if a person acts distant, I will usually assume they don't want to talk to me, rather than trying to figure out what's wrong.

There are situations where it did seem I was actually the 'clinger', and the other person wasn't. But those kind of people were usually a bit of a 'clinger' toward me in the beginning, before we settled into whatever roles felt comfortable as we both talked.
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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Trailblazer said:
I don't think you're boring...
What makes a person boring?
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If I had a camera following me and it was broadcast on TV, I would probably get very low ratings. No one would watch such a boring program.

But overall, being boring is calm and drama-free, which can be helpful to one's mental health. Although "boring" is often in the eye of the beholder.

Someone could visit RF and look at the threads here and think "This is boring!" Others might come here and find many of the discussions quite fascinating and interesting, then they join up and start posting in "The Last Post is the WINNER" thread.
 
JustGeorge

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Stevicus said:
If I had a camera following me and it was broadcast on TV, I would probably get very low ratings. No one would watch such a boring program.
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My ratings would be through the roof!

Though, that's not due to my own interestingness... I live with some crazy ****.
 
Heyo

Heyo

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Snow White said:
I can't help but get the impression that I'm a little boring these days. I don't really party, and a lot of my thoughts these days are on adult-like things (thinking about stocks, businesses, money management, politics, etc). Feels like the only interesting thing I do is practice making funny faces.
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Everyone who posts on RF is "boring" to most of the people. Your average person talks about the weather, the latest TV show and other people, maybe current events and politics. As the saying goes "Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas."
 
JustGeorge

JustGeorge

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Heyo said:
Everyone who posts on RF is "boring" to most of the people. Your average person talks about the weather, the latest TV show and other people, maybe current events and politics. As the saying goes "Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas."
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What kinds of minds discuss chickens and reheated pea soup?
 
JustGeorge

JustGeorge

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Heyo said:
In another version of the saying "average minds discuss things", so that would fit best. I didn't catch your OP about chickens and reheated pea soup, sorry.
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But chickens aren't average... :shrug:

Reheated pea soup totally is, though.

I didn't make an OP about it... yet... :)
 
ChristineM

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"I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best."
Terry Pratchett,
The Color of Magic
 
icehorse

icehorse

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IMO, if a person is pursuing at least one thing with some passion, they're not boring. My definition of passion includes the idea that the thing you're passionate about requires real work to get good at. So you can be passionate about chess, or wine tasting, or photography, or cooking, or golf. But you can't really be passionate (in my book), about "visiting friends" or bar hopping. There's not enough THERE there in those activities. There's nothing wrong with them, they simply cannot inspire true passion.
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

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Heyo said:
Everyone who posts on RF is "boring" to most of the people. Your average person talks about the weather, the latest TV show and other people, maybe current events and politics. As the saying goes "Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas."
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Good point. I am bored with what the average person talks about, the weather, the latest TV show and other people, current events and politics, so I guess that is why I am on here so much instead of out socializing.
 
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