I think your last sentence is the kicker here. Hosting dinner parties, playing tennis and golf, and travel can actually be the sign that someone IS boring, rather than the reverse. If that is what the social round expects, and you do it because of that, it doesn't make you an interesting person: it makes you a person who conforms to social expectations. It may be that you _are_ an interesting person, that you enjoy these things and get a lot out of them, but simple participation says nothing about whether the person is interesting or dull ;-)
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Date: 2011-01-21 10:00 am (UTC)I think your last sentence is the kicker here. Hosting dinner parties, playing tennis and golf, and travel can actually be the sign that someone IS boring, rather than the reverse. If that is what the social round expects, and you do it because of that, it doesn't make you an interesting person: it makes you a person who conforms to social expectations. It may be that you _are_ an interesting person, that you enjoy these things and get a lot out of them, but simple participation says nothing about whether the person is interesting or dull ;-)