Don't Be Boring, Pt. 2

Originally Posted Thursday, April 24, 2014

I'm finding it very difficult not to be boring.  I'm not sure that article I linked to yesterday is going to make me more interesting.  I don't think there was enough specific detail.  I used to be interesting, but I didn't try, really.  Women always made me more interesting.  I've always nailed #2 on the list.  I am a very good listener.  THAT was something I learned from watching women.  When I was younger, women who went out with men seemed never to get the opportunity to talk.  I would watch couples from my table alone.  Middle-aged couples who had been together a long time didn't talk at all.  They would eat and look around the room.  They rarely smiled.  With old couples who had been together a very, very long time, it was the woman's turn.  As men's testosterone levels dropped and women's went up, I figured, this was only natural.  But with couples on a date. . . oh, those men would talk and talk and talk.  And what was lovely about the women they were with was that they looked at them with beautiful eyes and listened.  It was the most charming quality, one that I couldn't say was charming to my feminist friends. But I knew that it was true.  It was what people should do.  So I did.  I began to listen, and not just listen, but to invoke. 

"Really?  You did?  Tell me more about that.  It is fascinating." 

And it was.  People don't know how interesting they are until you let them know.  So I guess I have #3 on the list covered as well.  And #4?  Oh, believe me, I have three good stories.  No, wait. . . maybe you are ONLY supposed to have three.  I have many.  I'll have to go back to the article and see.  Perhaps you should have ONLY three. 

Let's skip #5 for a moment. 

I work in a factory.  #6 is hard.  But otherwise, I have that one covered pretty well, too.  I spend my time in only the most interesting places.  Even my house is interesting, full of oddities and the paraphernalia from travel to exotic lands.  I mean, you won't find me at Disney unless I am accompanying a child.  I'm O.K. on #6. 

#7, however. . . I used to.  And, perhaps I still do to some extent on those rare occasions when I leave the house.  I have interesting friends and get into the shit almost everywhere I go.  But I could do much better.  I used to.  I find, however, that what I think interesting simply shocks other more "normal" souls.  I must think about it.  I'd rather live like Paris Hilton than Sarah Palin, for instance.  This one is really problematic. 

Maybe I should set a goal of doing at least one interesting thing a day.  What will qualify, though?  This will take some work. 

I haven't time to talk about #5 today.  Charisma.  I have ideas about that and will share them sometime. But can someone decide to have charisma?  And why wasn't being beautiful on the list?  I mean it is as easy to be beautiful if your not as to have charisma if you don't, right?  This one is the ringer, I think.  It is the one you either have or have not. 

But I am still stuck on #1.  I am boring.  I bore myself.  That a man who can check off so many of the qualities on the list can still be boring is the mystery to be solved.  I'm on it, though.  It's just a tough case to crack.