I would have to agree with a lot of the previous posters: while some would opine that I might be pretty damned interesting due to my education and experiences, I would turn that around and tell them that I have friends that are just as experienced. Take the old guy across the street who flew a B-25 in WWII. Take my friend down the road who worked for the Discovery Channel, and who I now think works for Google.Com.
Yeah, we’ve all got a path to walk down. It’s just how you choose your route that determines a part of who we are.
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. . . and sometimes how hard and fast we take those paces, too!
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Yeah. That’s basically what I meant. I manage to be my own best friend and favorite television channel.
Could this be a litmus test for introverts vs. extroverts? Autoentertainment potential? (snip)
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I’m an introvert. I can keep myself entertained. I’m one of those people who can happily endure waits at the doctor’s office or long plane flights without reading material. I just don’t think I’m the most interesting person I know. Maybe I’m particularly blessed in the circle of friends and acquaintances I have.
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No, and I’d have to have a helluva giant ego problem to think so. I know a lot of very interesting people. They’re interesting to me because their knowledge and experience is different from mine, and I learn something from each of them. Whether they find me interesting is something you’d have to ask them.
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[QUOTE=Tabby_Cat]
Heh. I’m the most boring person I know.
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Me too. I mean, I already know enough about me that I rarely suprise myself. I only know one way of entertaining myself, and it can’t be done in public. When I need alternate ways of occupying myself I usually try to find a solution to whatever problems I have.
I’m perfectly capable of entertaining myself. After all, one’s mind must be pretty shallow if once can’t retreat into it every once in a while. But no matter how wondrous my mind is, it’s still *my * mind. There’s nothing in there to surprise me, or shake me up, and I’m not sufficiently narcissistic to enjoy spending too much time in an echo chamber.
Talk about a self-fulfilling topic! Of course I find the things that I am interested in are intersting to me…and I spend all of my time with me! All of my hobbys are fascinating, and the movies that I watch are those that…I would choose!
But seriously, I am one of a number of interesting people, and I hang out with interesting folks, and they are intelligent (why would I hang out with them otherwise?). I guess that I need to find people that I think are stupid and boring and shallow.
