Have I become boring?

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For context. I'm 50 with dh and dc 15& 17. I work FT. In my 20s I was a party animal.

Now, I enjoy my Saturday mornings taking in the weekly food delivery. Weekly clean out & re stock the fridge. Bins out. Washing on. House cleaned. I have a very clean, tidy, organised, consistently well stocked house. Everything is decluttered, we always have what we need. I don't like theatre/art galleries/shopping. I certainly wouldn't want a day out at the weekend unless it was the seaside or lunch out. I prefer to stay local, except for seaside. Weekend nights I prefer to be in either at friends or with friends/ dh at mine. Sometimes I might suggest the local pub. I have no desire to go anywhere far away for the weekend, unless the seaside. I do go abroad a lot.

I'm not spontaneous. My messages to friends are always quite matter-of-fact. Never me suggesting to do anything. A friend is off to London today. I couldn't think of anything worse. She's excited to be going.

have I become boring ?

Sorry you sound really boring you sound like someone in their 90s

Life is very short what so your family. Members think? Are they happy to stay and not go anywhere?

I absolutely agree with this!

OP, you sound very happy with your life and setup and that's wonderful.

If you're not bored, you're not boring.

But it wouldn't be a life I'd be happy with. Sorry. I love being at gigs, being out and about. I have young DC and the amount we're inevitably at home makes me pretty miserable. It's something I'm working on.

I found happy clearing out my futility room today. Tomorrow is the larder, which dog legs under my stairs and is full of shite.

Next weekend I have a skip booked!

I'm 55, and can party like a boss when I'm in the mood

A bit, yes. I do struggle with people who aren’t interested in ANYTHING. You don’t need to be a party animal going out all the time (I’m quite a homebody myself) but there’s loads of things to take an interest in from the comfort of your own home.

Several posters have said ‘if you aren’t bored you aren’t boring’. This is nonsense. Boring is connected to how you relate to others. If you don’t read or watch the news or any new tv, what do you talk about with friends and family? It’s perfectly possible to not be bored but to be a boring person.

It’s not what you do it’s the not reading or engaging in anything cultural or current affairs or life generally that would have me running for the hills. Wff do you talk about?

You do have interests: your home, travel, walking your dog and the seaside. What do you chat about to friends?

The only risks for you would be if you miss out on a social life because you find it hard to meet like minded people or getting interested in something else that you love even more.

Honestly, yes you do sound a bit boring. You seem to have zero interests. But if you're content in your life that's the main thing.

It’s your life, live it however you want. Judgemental people are boring!

Not sure boring is the right word, but I don't get it. I knew a few people who never go anywhere new and only go on holiday to hot places. They've never been anywhere in the UK, never seen a mountain or a waterfall. I find it odd. Not saying this is you.

OP has said it’s her. She only goes to the seaside in hot countries.

As long as you are content and happy in what you do, or don't do for that matter. it's really not up to anyone else to pass judgement. It's your life and you should live it however you like (illegal activities aside of course).
I'm certainly no party animal, never have been to be honest, but I do enjoy the occasional day out, a visit to the local theatre or cinema, a meal out - just pub grub, doesn't have to be anything particularly fancy - or a visit to one of our nearby pubs. Like you, I hate crowded venues with a passion and just can't be arsed queuing to get in, to get out again, for the loo, for drinks or food etc. It ruins the evening for me and I don't enjoy it.
I do read a lot though, it's one of my favourite pastimes, and whilst I don't go out of my way to watch the news I do try to keep up with the top headlines so that I have some idea of what is going on elsewhere in the world.
If that makes me boring, so be it.

She did yes, but she didn't say she's never been anywhere in this country.

Op ..... if what you do at weekends makes you happy, good for you. We have one life .... Enjoy it 😁

I would find you boring and uninteresting but that is primarily because you don't seem not interested in learning anything new. You don't read, don't know what's going on in the world but instead you do housework and re-watch old stuff. We would have very little in common and you seem old for your age. Nothing wrong with it but it's not exciting.

The people saying the OP has a boring life .... ha, ha.

How are you filling your lives?

The OP works FT, has two teen kids, frequently goes abroad on holiday, spends weekends with friends, sometimes goes to the pub / the seaside, enjoys watching TV from a few decades ago, likes to have a clean and organised house.

What the hell is wrong with any of that?

OP you are not boring. Sounds like you are just comparing your life to what it was like in your 20s.

I was also a party animal in my 20s. Life boring in comparison. Wouldn't want to go back. Much happier now.

Each to their own but I wouldn’t want to be stuck next to someone who never read books went to the theatre or knew anything about current events at a party. What on earth do you talk about? Cleaning products? Your kids?