> Then again I have a saying I use when anyone says they are bored - I say they are boring!

This is a very clever come back, I wonder if it might qualify as the best thought terminating cliché I've seen this year!

I never say I'm bored. The universe is too interesting a place to be bored. I did mean it, that most people, individually, are what I find boring. I'd rather withdraw into my mind and work on something interesting, whether it's about figuring something out, or trying to design something. The painful part is pretending to care long enough to get away without somebody getting butthurt.

The "almost by definition" is that the people I find interesting are usually busy doing interesting things, so the boring ones are the only regular people at social gatherings. I do not go to those anymore.

> I wonder if it might qualify as the best thought terminating cliché I've seen this year!

That is certainly the best back-handed compliment I have received in the last hour. Thank you. Your writing molests me.

> is that the people I find interesting are usually busy doing interesting things, so the boring ones are the only regular people at social gatherings.

That comes across to me as a refreshingly honest self-centred view.

You recall me of a friend who does contemporary dance as part of a troupe. I find them interesting - however I also find sewage plants and stink beetles interesting.

What's I'm trying to say is that finding people interesting (or boring) probably says more about you than it does about them.

The smartest people I know seem to be interested in everything. I often find people interesting for reasons I would find difficult to admit to them. I'm not that smart.

I find myself boring - contemptuous through familiarity?

And yeah, I'm rather cynical about "norms" too.

> I'd rather withdraw into my mind and work on something interesting

Be careful that there are social penalties for behaving like that way. When people smell an air of arrogance, they implicitly punish you.

I recommend to trick yourself into believing that people around you are worth your time. Even if it's not really true. Even if it makes you die a little inside. Just try to make it work.

And when the opportunity comes to get rid of those people from your life, grab that chance with all your heart.