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Do you find it difficult to engage in intellectual conversations with people in general?
It happens to me all the time. My wife encourages me to have dinner with her friend and her friend's husband. "It's the opportunity to socialize and meet new interesting people!", she proclaims. And yet the same boring conversations unfold. The guy rambles on about how many yards this guy ran, and how many interceptions this guy threw, and did you see how many spiders that guy ate on Fear Factor, etc, etc. I ask something like, "Hey, did you see that they possibly discovered the Higgs Boson at the LHC?" And the guy looks at me like I'm from Mars, "The LH what?". Then my wife makes a comment like I'm a nerd then everyone laughs. I'm far from a social misfit or hobbit, I just prefer to discuss things that stimulate me intellectually. I hope I don't offend anyone for saying so, but most of the time I feel like I'm surrounded by people that are intellectually challenged, to put it kindly. And maybe that's just it, if you consider that the average intellectual quotient is around 100. They're easily entertained and amuzed to watch television shows cataloging the "real world" of college kids living in a house together, arguing over who got the most trashed the night before at the club.
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Linda Taylor 50+
I was never very good at them either.
So I started to embarrass my SO until he no longer made me go. I would talk about inappropriate things at dinner like waste treatment plants, feces processing. It finally worked but it took a while. Then it was only on occasion we would go. Now I just smile and eat and talk about the food. As a spouse we have to do some things we don't like that our partner does.
As long as we can stop by the air and space museum exhibition opening next weekend.
Jake Maddox
Don Wesley 50+
Here is gentle reminder 'Pride goeth before the fall.'
You are very young and have much wisdom to learn.
Remain humble and make sure you feel the kindness in your heart
and not just an 'intention' in your thinking.
Don Wesley [From The Silent Generation - the 30's]
Jake Maddox