The Ugly Duckling

No one thinks the way I think about anything about life… I think? Even though there are a few friends who are willing to engage with me, I feel like I’m talking to a virtual psychologist sharing deep and unique views of various life situations like relationships, parenting, family, survival, natural selection, politics etc. Even though asking deep questions is a useful tool in prolonging conversations making them interesting, nevertheless I feel my conversations push people away from me with every sentence I murmur.

Let’s compare the pair.
My friends’ conversations:
— Excess Abbreviations such as LMFAO, …AF, LOL, TROLOLOL, BTW, JKS, OMG, OMFG, FYI
— Overreactions to certain pictures, videos and memes regarding gluttony, holidays, relationships, life habits, fame, drunkenness, young girls and boys, and adolescence.
— Curse words, pretence of excessive laughter, short and sharp responses to certain comments and photos via text
— Mindlessly using new viral slang terms coined by Americans (mostly black people) such as lit, bae, netflix and chill.
— Quick, unnecessary and somewhat biased opinions on everything

My conversations:
— Paragraph, essay-style responses (like this post)
— Lack of curse words, heavy use of sophisticated vocabulary
— Speaking in a mature, authoritative manner
— Asking deep, rhetorical, complicated questions rather than Yes-No simple questions.
— Excess general knowledge

I feel like I know way too much general knowledge compared to most people, which is isolating me in the conversation and the pressure is always on me to continue the chat to another topic. Everyone around my age talks about employment, money, family, sex, gossip, dining experiences, work habits, events with their circle of friends. Whereas I’m talking about the universe, natural selection, psychological issues and scenarios (human and animal), neuroscience, planet Earth, animal kingdom (David Attenborough), courtship, relationships, marriage, family, society etc.

I can’t fathom how most other people think whether it’s like a jumbled incomplete jigsaw puzzle or the Mythbusters workshop container shelves. I, on the other hand, have a unique train of thought travelling around the longest railway of neurons any human brain has laid out. I find it quite boring to selectively choose a topic and then discuss the relevant straightforward details. I have this tendency to integrate and link several topics directly and/or indirectly, which may surprise and possibly overwhelm a huge majority of my friends. My sense of humour is almost inexplicable because I’m not intentionally making jokes hoping for rapid, exhilarating and uncontrollable laughter from those around me. I guess I might be a half-pariah with the ability to think from a comedian’s perspective, despite not being a professional comedian myself. Unlike ordinary comedians who always make weird impressions of characters in their made-up stories and hilariously inaccurate sound effects of several actions just to add some comedic flavour and understanding of their stories, I utilise the art of irony, sarcasm and humorous mockery and ridicule along with some onomatopoetic impressions and other sound effects. I understand this type of humour is unique, inexplicable and unbeknownst to a huge percentage of people, but that what makes me me. I feel the best way to describe this is that I listen to and pick certain aspects of various’ people’s humour and personality, then add it to the Boost Mixer and, Voila! I have made my own comedy milkshake, but I don’t know what it tastes like but hopefully with milk, ice and fruit at least. This is different to imitating and copying a certain style of humour because that’s just a pathetic attempt to be just as funny as the original person despite the contrasting difference in appearance and personality. It may be embarrassing to watch too.

This got me wondering, why do some people find a specific thing, action or media funny whereas other people don’t react the same way rather sarcastically? How come my parents’ and friends’ humour is a mismatch with my humour? How do certain things in comedy, social media and reality trigger us to laugh? That is something I’d like to read about and discuss for another time.