Friday, February 3, 2012

And then there is no mystery left

I think I've grown boring.  Or maybe I've been boring all this time and only just now realized it.  I used to pride myself on being unpredictable.  I thought my smiles were mysterious, curious, tempting.  I would look into my eyes in the mirror and wonder what people saw there, if they ever looked.

But see, maybe that's where I went wrong.  I don't think anyone did ever look.  And that, in and of itself, is my own fault.  Because something you said really bothered me, mostly because it's so true.  I isolate myself.  I'm not sure how to not isolate myself anymore.  It's just so easy.  I'm quiet.  I always have been.  And a little bit afraid of people.  So I don't start conversations, and I look up when someone is about to sit down next to me and apparently I look evil or terrifying or something, so they move on and sit elsewhere.

I don't have a genuine smile for when someone tries to sit down and I don't have anything to talk to them about.  If I have nothing to say, I don't start a conversation.  Especially when I'm deep in thought, I don't want to make small-talk about the weather or about this person's career when I doubt I will ever see them again.

And I think that getting to know me is the same way.  I have my stories.  I have my quirks.  But once you get past them...that's it.  There's nothing left.  I don't radically change or grow.  My personality is not dynamic or infinite or exciting.  I'm a workaholic.  I like reading but hardly ever do it.  I'm nostalgic and dip in and out of depression.  I get obsessed with all sorts of things, but especially with people.  I have great hopes and expectations but never the initiative to accomplish these things.  I rarely start or stop things, but tend to go with what other people want to do.

That's me in a nutshell.  You don't need to say anything else.  That covers everything and anything you'd ever want to know.  So yes, I get boring.  It doesn't take particularly much discovery to learn everything there is.  What else can I do with myself?

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