Whether you believe it or not, everyone lives a super cool life. The only problem is that not many people like talking about the super cool lives that they live. Which sucks, because that’s a lot of super cool stories we’re missing out on. I really don’t get why a lot of people present their lives as cardboard cut-outs (read: flat, boring, lifeless, dull) of the real things. Instead of being Jayendra Nehru* who grew up in Nepal, moved to Canada when he was 14, spend two years at a private school in Vancouver, moved to Etobicoke for his final year of secondary schooling, and is now studying at Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario, he presents himself as Jay doing biz at Western, which totally doesn’t do his life justice.
It’s strange how a lot of people don’t talk about their lives or where they’ve been or what they’ve done or what they’ve experienced because they feel like it’s all “not interesting enough.” Who defines interesting anyways? I would love if people would talk about their lives more openly. It would make things a lot less boring. It would make relationships (no, not the holding-sweaty-hands-in-a-movie-theatre or the intimate-wine-and-roses kind, but the everyday-interaction-between-people kind) a lot more fun.
I’m not a creep, but sometimes I get this sudden urge to grab people by their collars, shake them up one or two times, and then say to them, “Man, stop being so f**king boring!” Or, I could always get right in there face and look real hard into their eyes and say “There’s more of you in there, I can just FEEL it.” The only thing stopping me from doing either is that I always find some sort of excuse to fight this urge off though. Excuses like, “they’re going to think I’m out of my mind,” or “I am frigging out of my mind,” or “I could just try harder to pry their juicy life-stories out of them [insert cackle here].” (Okay, I promise the creepster comments stop now)
Bottom line is, I think people should stop trying to be so boring. I actually think that it takes people MORE effort to be a bore than to it does to be interesting. Stop trying to be like everyone else. Be yourself. I dare you.
2 comments:
I like this. =)
You'll be hearing my life story on Monday when we're back at Mac.
Book your day off. >=P haha
See, we're all kind of selfish in this funny way that we downplay ourselves so that maybe, one day someone'll actually be interested enough in us to dig deeper.
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