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>>21485603
How is my dad so boring yet so entertaining at the same time?

Growing up, even now, he doesn't seem to have any hobbies or interests, at least nothing he passed onto us. Just worked and went home. Never had friends or bros he went out with or played golf with or whatever. Basically had no real seperate social life. Never even used to take my mother out, we never did family trips or anything like that or went away when school was out or did family things on the weekend besides fast food after church on a Sunday if he wasn't working. This stopped once we were all in highschool btw. Only trip was maybe 2 times where we went back to the old country where he didn't even come the first time. He just attends the occasional family/family-friend event throughout the year and even then he would avoid them.

But when he is there he is the life of the party and has conversations going about who knows what and everyone gathers around him and he is loud and making everyone laugh and entertained.

I don't get it. Nowadays he is just on the iPad every free minute he gets and before that it was just tv when he got home. Yet I'm boring as fuck even though I live the same lifestyle he basically taught me lmao. What the heck is going on? He doesn't even drink or anything to loosen up, he doesn't like alcohol because dad was an abusive alcoholic.
Yet he is so good with people despite avoiding them a lot if he can help it.

When he has time off work, as in weeks or even over a month+ he doesn't go anywhere and just stays at home yet I don't get the vibe his coworkers find him to be a boring guy for doing just that

How do I end up more like my dad?

>>21473364
How is my dad so boring yet so entertaining at the same time?

Growing up, even now, he doesn't seem to have any hobbies or interests, at least nothing he passed onto us. Just worked and went home. Never had friends or bros he went out with or played golf with or whatever. Basically had no real seperate social life. Never even used to take my mother out, we never did family trips or anything like that or went away when school was out or did family things on the weekend besides fast food after church on a Sunday if he wasn't working. This stopped once we were all in highschool btw. Only trip was maybe 2 times where we went back to the old country and one of them he didn't come along. His only social life was just the occasional family/family-friend event throughout the year and even then he would avoid them.

But when he is there at a social event he is the life of the party and has conversations going about who knows what and everyone gathers around him and he is loud and making everyone laugh and entertained.

I don't get it. Nowadays he is just on the iPad every free minute he gets and before that it was just tv when he got home. Yet I'm boring as fuck even though I live the same lifestyle he basically taught me lmao. What the heck is going on? He doesn't even drink or anything to loosen up, he doesn't like alcohol because dad was an abusive alcoholic.
Yet he is so good with people despite avoiding them a lot if he can help it.

How do I end up more like my dad?