Do you worry you've become boring?

[onlyhappyonice]

Since I've fallen in love with skating, I've been told by one person but I feel more think it... that it's pretty much all I talk about.

Has anyone else been told this or feel like that?

[Skittl1321]

No one has told me that, and I don't feel I'm any more boring than I used to be (I'm not a very exciting person). I have other hobbies outside of skating and talk about all of them. Depending on who I'm with I talk about things they also enjoy talking about. DH much prefers skating talk to craft talk- so I think he's okay with it.

[Oracle]

I'm in my 70's so I KNOW that I'm boring.

[littleprincess]

I think that my friends that don't skate get kinda bored of my talking about it but the have never called me boring.

[soniaissuper]

The only thing that I keep filed in my mind is that everyone has (or should have) things that they are passionate about. "Everybody's got their something." If someone lacks passion then they are the boring ones.

I know I have a group of adult skaters at my rink that "get" me. We lunch together and are almost like family...so maybe you can find people that might be "boring" (haha...not) like you. :)

[doubletoe]

I think it's the other way around: The more I've gotten into skating, the more boring non-skaters have become, LOL! But seriously, I think it's just a matter of having a passion vs. not having a passion. Anyone with a passion ought to be able to understand anyone else with a passion, even if it's a different passion. It's those with no passion for anything that just don't get it and would rather talk about something mundane. (Hey, just realized soniassuper said the same thing. Maybe we're onto something!). Anyway, be prepared to find that you grow apart from those people who don't care about your passion and find new friends who do.

[ibreakhearts66]

When I first fell in love with skating, I talked about it a lot too. I was (very kindly) informed by my best friend that I was talking about it a little too much. Now I just talk about it when something really exciting happens.

[kimberley801]

I know my husband gets bored from all my figure skating conversations, but I get bored with his car conversations!!!!

[Sessy]

Some people call me obsessed, but those are not my friends. My friends told me, after I've laid low with the whiplash and concussion for like 6 weeks and then took op doing some light skating-oriented exercising again, that "I'm glad you've re-found your passion again".

It's a passion, not an addiction, and it's called being focused, not boring.

Boring are the people who hang out in front of the TV with a beer, instant messenger or game half the night after work, and every weekend go with their "mates" to the same pub to get wasted and then spend the rest of the weekend in bed, and maybe an hour a week or so at the gym with other beerbellied couch potatoes.



But I do try to keep most of my skating obsession on skating forums. Non-skating people usually just hear like once a month "check out my new skating video" and that's about it, occasionally I'll jump up and down and scream "I did a biellmann spin!" or "I landed a ... every time today!" but that's only when something really remarkable happens.
Sometimes I'll talk about flexibility, and twice a year I watch skating on tv, but then they watch soccer or volleyball or whatever so everybody's got something. As long as you have friends with big passions and pay attention to their passions when they tell about them, it's not a problem.
People without passions I just think are boring so I never really befriend them in the first place, all my friends have one or two big passions in their lives.

If you have people interested in other sports around, I recommend talking training schedules, rest days, food, stretching, supplements, stamina, flexibility, balance exercises etc. The common stuff to most sports. You'd be surprised what they can recommend what you can use. I'm not suggesting you start taking creatine like bodybuilders, but pay quite as close attention to heart rates like marathon runners, but there's quite some helpful stuff around in other sports. And even if you don't learn anything new, at least you had a nice talk.

[frbskate63]

A friend of mine once said "I think you're mistaking me for someone who's interested!", when I'd been going on about skating for a bit too long. But then he talks about some obscure role-playing card game at which he competes, so I reckon we're quits.

[Muskoka Skater]

I think that my friends that don't skate get kinda bored of my talking about it but the have never called me boring.

Same here. My friends don't understand it so when i go on for hours about it, they look like their gonna fall asleep. I have never thought of myself as boring.

[4rkidz]

I know my husband gets bored from all my figure skating conversations, but I get bored with his car conversations!!!!

Well my hubbie is now a closet figure skating fan - it took 20 years but he is actually a very good couch judge now.. so I must admit it makes it easier to discuss figure skating - although he is just into the worlds/olympics etc., but I can't really talk to him beyond that - so that's why I get my fix on the message boards..lol.