A Difficult Case of "High Maintenance"

I was "unwinding" the week over a drink with company, and suddenly it struck me...I was bored. Not just bored bored but BOOOOORED. I'd heard it all before. I already knew every detail, in detail.

And then it occurred to me that I'm such a pain in the arse: totally high maintenance. So difficult to keep interested. Always in need of constant brain candy... interesting, varied, conversation/mental stimulation.

The problem with people relations is that, inevitably, after you've known someone for some time, the content/dynamic starts to get a little...static. I don't find I have this problem in any other situation. For example I can go on a nature walk or sit on the same beach and never get bored. Or I can watch films or listen to music or indulge in reading some new learning material.

On a nature walk I can sit observing ants at a nest going about their business for quite a while or examine the different variations in the barks and leaves of different trees. On the beach I can watch the everchanging waves, the people going about their various activities, the little marine life that abounds in rockpools, the changing colours of the sky or be intrigued by the new patterns blown in the sand.

But with people...I tend to get Bored with a capital "B". Maybe this is just the case for all major introverts? I'm not yet sure whether this is a resolvable problem. I guess for a while now, the wonderful array of "interesting characters" on the internet and their blogs have been fulfilling this need somewhat...

I think once you get older and your social circle shrinks dramatically in depth and breadth...it's a bit of a problem to be this way. I guess this "issue" accounts for why I am always most drawn to creative, atypical, multi-layered, multi-faceted people...the types of people who given minimal tools and equipment can always create and invent something...wonderfully new and refreshing.

Sometimes I get tired of invariably always bearing the burden of having to generate. Maybe I just need to find more wacky, abnormal people in my real life...people who can help share the load...