Is your life interesting?

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If it is, in what way? How do you make it interesting, what do you do?

@nokidshere Thank you, but looking at them, they don’t really count towards future employment etc?

Yes- to me
And I think that’s the most important bit
To find every bit of your life interesting
I am fairly boring
I work part time but I love it
I have DC which keeps me busy
And I read loads and watch TV with DP which I talk over LOADS while he listens
That makes me feel very interesting 🤪

As many others have said:

Interesting to other ? Is someone likely to write my Biography? Would I (in years gone by) have been invited on to 'This is your Life'? Will they make a film of my life ?

No to all those ^

But is it interesting to me ? Then yes. I think because I am interested in lots of different things, and I try to be open minded and give things a go even if they don't sound that thrilling before trying them. Then I carry on doing things I enjoy.

People from one hobby / volunteering / thing I might go and watch are often quite surprised to find out I also do one of the other things, that perhaps stereotypically not that many people might like both, IYSWIM.

I make it interesting by looking at life as chapters, i have learnt to say yes to opportunities no matter how small.
I used to worry more and procrastinate a lot.

I try new hobbies, last few years learnt how to bake and decorate cakes, took up dog agility training, tried several new sports.

Even the unmitigated disasters now make me smile, and have led me to work out what does make me happy.

Not particularly. But I do love my weekends with my son and husband

Not in the least interesting, fairly boring in fact. But I’m happy with it.

I'm the one always going to something that everyone else says 'oh I wish I'd known about that'!
I am seldom bored with my life.

I'm not rich enough to be interesting. I'm not poor enough to have an existence so miserable it's worthy of a turn of the century epic. Mediocre sprinkled with mental health issues and disability.

Yes! My work is very interesting (to me...I don't expect anyone else to be interested in it). I've also travelled a lot and lived abroad.

I also have an interesting family in my opinion. And my dd is endlessly fascinating to me!

I volunteer on a couple of Boards, which give me insights into all sorts of things that I wouldn't know about otherwise.

I am lucky enough to know lots of really interesting people and have some wonderful friends with a very diverse range of interests and experiences.

I read, go to the theatre, talk to random people on trains. I find that life is full of interesting opportunities.

The world is my oyster right now actually but there's a catch- I have a healthy 2.5 year old that is extremely hardwork where he mentally and emotionally drains me to the point where I sometimes forget if I've brushed my teeth or sprayed deodorant. I don't enjoy hanging out with my little one at all. I could have a VERY interesting life but I don't feel like it. I'm worried sometimes by the time I feel like it, maybe I won't have the opportunities I have today

Interesting is not a sneery word at all and most of us never sneer at others. Do you?

I am in very poor health and living very meagrely on a basic pension but I find life fascinating and interesting beyond measure. Never a dull moment
Yes some folk say. interesting when they don't know what else to say, lol. But that is not sneering either. Just folk find seeing different as... too different

Not in the slightest!

I fill it with the things that are interesting to me - my family, riding, writing, reading, baking, and my career - but to anyone else this would probably be extremely dull.

I could do things that are a lot more “interesting” by conventional standards, like travel or do yet another degree, but I’m happy as I am.

Yea probably. We are too skint to do anything exciting without having to scrimp and save first (if indeed we have anything left to actually save at the end of the month) so we rarely go out anywhere.

If I'm at work then I can be anywhere within a 30 mile/45 minute radius and I never really know where I'll be from one day to the next so that's different. If I'm at home during the day then I struggle to stay awake and end up sleeping until after lunchtime.

On weekends and evenings we just potter about really and don't do much. We have the occasional visitor but otherwise nothing happens.

@gwenneh

Not in the slightest!

I fill it with the things that are interesting to me - my family, riding, writing, reading, baking, and my career - but to anyone else this would probably be extremely dull.

I could do things that are a lot more “interesting” by conventional standards, like travel or do yet another degree, but I’m happy as I am.

Ah you have the secret of life. Being happy and interested where you are. Me too... lol.... Not been further than my gate for many many months yet life is full of interest and variety

I'm currently looking forward to a trip to the town library next Monday and a new (to me) Tesco on Wednesday. I'm sure that answers your question.

On Sunday I was saying to DH life feels very boring at the moment (we're in lockdown, 3 months in) and I miss when life felt a bit fuller.
On Tuesday I fell an sprained my knee on way to pick up the dc. On Wednesday DH's grandad passed away. On Thursday I got a message saying my dad was in a foreign hospital and they wouldn't release him without the bill being paid. As much as it sounds like a scam it turned out to be 100% true and we're hoping that he is released today after much drama, language barrier issues and coordination amongst family over three countries.
I will be careful what I wish for in future and happy to wait out the lockdown now with no further drama!!

Not really and I had a bit of a revelation about this when filling a form in this week. It asked about interests and hobbies. I wracked my brains and then had to tick none. That felt a bit sad.

You'd think my life was boring. But I like it and that's what matters.

@GatoradeMeBitch

I'm currently looking forward to a trip to the town library next Monday and a new (to me) Tesco on Wednesday. I'm sure that answers your question.

I bloody love checking out a new supermarket and nothing thrills me more than the thought of going to a new place to check out the charity shops.

@Window1

Not really and I had a bit of a revelation about this when filling a form in this week. It asked about interests and hobbies. I wracked my brains and then had to tick none. That felt a bit sad.

This used to really get me when applying for jobs. I applied for so many with no luck.

One day, I got pissed off and write that my hobby was BDSM.

I got the job

My life is full on but not the most interesting it's been. Having said that I have had a pretty full on life so I really enjoyed the boring aspects of the pandemic. Now that the children are back to full on school, with all the trimmings and bells on, weddings, meetings, learning crochet, moving forward at the rate of knots at work and a sick mother, I'm busy.

However most of it isn't fun or exciting. Is that what you mean?

Yes I think so, I teach children with additional needs which I love because there's never a dull moment. I also have a hobby that takes me out and about to lots of different events and am generally quite busy and full. I wouldn't say it's astonishing but yes on the whole there's always something going on.

Moderately so. I have a fairly glam job, work with famous people, live in central London so feel like I'm in the middle of things (though am starting to have hankerings for village life). Go to lots of parties, host lots of dinners, have a wide variety of friends from various walks of life.

It was more interesting when I was younger and I lived off champagne and free canapes at parties and travelled more, but things being a bit more boring is wonderful, I desperately hope it might stay this way. I think having a really interesting life relies on a fair amount of change and chaos, and a point comes when that's not so exciting anymore.

I think interesting is subjective. My life is interesting to me, but may not be to others

Remember that old Chinese proverb (or perhaps it's a curse): 'may you live in interesting times'.

I would really like my life to be boring for a while.