People are endlessly interesting. Everyone has a story, a history, a network, a past, and a future. Each one of us was a cute little baby once, and we've all also had our uglier moments.
May I suggest a way to entertain yourself endlessly? Learn to initiate new friendships, cultivate old ones, and in short, make a sport of investing your life into the lives of others.
Sound a little too "touchy-feely?" Maybe. But I give you my personal guarantee that it will be one of the most rewarding, fulfilling, stimulating, interesting, entertaining, and worth-while things you've ever done. It will become your new sport, hobby, pastime, and focus. The more you get interested in others, the more you'll discover about this world in which we live and the better you will understand yourself.
You're already into this, you say? Fine. Can you step it up a bit? Can you seek to add more value to everyone you meet? Can you grow in your "other-focussedness?" (How's that for a word?) Do so, and you'll never regret it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that you'll never regret the times when you sincerely take an interest in other people. It may not always be returned in kind, it might not appear to bear any fruit whatsoever, but the giving of your attention, affirmation, and appreciation to another human being always boomerangs back around to you.
Try it and see. I dare you.
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