This is a typical "Is it me or the others?" entry.

[urania]

Okay, so recently I met quite a lot of new people due to moving away and studying and such, and getting to know people is interesting. And I don't just mean their names and likes and stuff, but the way those people are. I talked with a few, had debates on principles and came to a conclusion that I find weird. And I don't even know how to put it. Okay, so let me try...

A lot of those people I know (at least 90% I'd guess) have a lot of things they "just don't find interesting" or "don't care about". And they have lots of things they don't care about.
And now my question is simple: How can that be? How can you find anything too boring or beneath you to care about it or think that you could find it interesting? How can you say "physics is boring"? Because it's a huge subject! You can't ever really grasp all of it, so how can you just say "It's not interesting?".

Phew, this is really hard to put into words. :/

Anyway, it's just, there's NOT ONE THING that I don't care about or which I couldn't care about. I've thought long and hard about it, and I haven't found one.

When we talked about it, they all shrugged off so many things which I liked or said found interesting as boring, it just puzzled me.

They don't care about this, they don't care about that.

I find this very weird. And now I ask myself, it is unusual or something to find pretty much everything interesting on some level?

Uhm, so did any of you at least understand my thought? xD They're such gibberish...



On a totally unrelated note: Only two more day till the skijumping season starts! Yaaaay~! ♥

Comments

[isegrim-chan.livejournal.com]

Interesting debate! It kind of reminds me of the music taste disuccion (i.e. Simple Plan sucks now VS Simple Plan used to make music I liked better).

I thought about it a while and try to explain my explanation: :D Weird sentence...

I see it like that:
Saying "I don't find it interesting." or "I don't care." is an easy way to change the subject.
I don't think people generally mean it like that. They just want to talk about something they can talk more about.
It's just a way of saying "I have no real knowledge about that and since I don't want to look dumb, let's talk about something else!"

And some people also have reasons like: "I won't get it anyway, it's so complicated." or "Why should I know about that, I won't need it anyway." The first ones are just covering up self-sonsciousness and the others ignorance.

And there is also the matter of taste and people's will to talk about their favourites (because we are all a little bit self-centered ;P). I.e.: person A loves science fiction movies - the person B Rosamunde Pilcher-dramas. And suppose they both go "Ewww, noooo. Change the subject before he/she jumps in my face with that stuff!" :P

And some things just never interested people as such because someone might have "ruined" it for them (a boring teacher, for example). A spark and then they'd probably be all over it.)

Does this make sense?

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Vielleicht mache ich mir über manche Sachen einfach zu viele Gedanken...

Aber deine Erklärung find ich auch die plausibelste, also ja, es macht Sinn. :)
Ich finde es aber trotzdem schade, dass manche so sind. :/ Und wenn sie so über viele Sachen denken, kann ich sie nur noch bemitleiden, was sie alles verpassen.

[isegrim-chan.livejournal.com]

Ich glaube auch. :) Das kostet nur Energie.

Besser Mitleid als so was Anstrengendes wie Verärgerung. ;D