I met someone quite recently. Though I thought it was another random "Hello let's be friends!" I felt that it'll be awkward later on if I find that person boring. Yeah she's cute, she's friendly and nice but....boring. This is where the problem lies.

When I eavesdrop in public, be it waiting for someone, in the bus or just having a smoke, I noticed most, if not all, conversations I find are boring.

Subject 1: "OMG. You know whaaaat??? I saw a cockroach last night in my room and I was like eeeeeee and then my mom was like aaaaaaa!! So my bro was like all gangsta taking the broom and whacking the disgusting piece of crap!"

Subject 1's friend: "Oh wow! That's disgusting! Did it die after that? Was it flying? Ewww. OMG!"

And they carry on for 2 minutes talking about it before going on to another boring stuff; subject 1's trip to the hair saloon.

Don't get me wrong. Yes these are just normal chit chats and that's probably why I don't talk much. Even if I did found a spider as big as my palm and hairy and killing it with newspaper, I find it uninteresting of a topic to bring up to anyone. So back to Miss cutie, yeah I went out with her but our conversations ended up rather mundane to the point that I figured the only things that I can actually talked to her about was nonsensical jokes. Which is okay, but you can't possibly be joking the whole time ya? So this is where my very tiny circle of friends come in. Its totally fun and very very engaging talking to them, be it about everything. Somehow everything becomes interesting. Suddenly I don't feel awkward talking about things that aren't usually talked about. Our views are different too at times, conflicting you might say, but nonetheless why are we interesting to each other? Not just to say we're all of the same race, nor of same religion, or no religion.

What I can conclude is that there is one similarity we share with each other; an open mind. Our ability to take in stuffs and understand it. Our characters are different, tastes not alike, it doesn't matter. I just can't see of any other explanation to it. The diversity is so large. An example would be one of my bestie. She's the last person I thought I'd ever be friend with in the past, and look at us now. Sometimes we don't even have to say a word and we know each other's thoughts. It's like I'm South pole she's north, she's white I'm black. No one would believe I'm her friend after knowing the both of us. Despite our differences and our pole to pole character, due to our open minds, the differences are accepted.

Try and analyze your friends. See if it has any link.