I had a 'night out' on Friday, my first 'night' out' I think since December 2020.
It was actually quite nice, some friends of mine put on a 'Persian Night' which consisted of them cooking and serving food to 80 people in a local community pre-fab, with a bar of course.
I had a perfectly nice time - ate a lot, drank a bit, chatted to a few people I'd not met before, it's nice to get out once every couple of years or so.
This morning I had an interesting conversation with a friend who had helped out cooking, she expressed her disappointment that there weren't more 'interesting' people there - I knew what she meant - 'characters' - many of the people were, indeed, quite ordinary, LOTs of them were British in fact.
However there are a fair few 'characters' around here too - it's quite an alternative place to live - but most of them weren't in attendance.
This got me to thinking about what makes for an interesting person.... it's such a relative concept.
Odd to think that when you're in Britain escaping the country, moving to a foreign country, buying a ruin and setting up an off-grid homestead that's pretty damned interesting - HOWEVER, that's NORMAL here, every damned foreigner is doing just this - building their homestead.
It becomes quite mundane, and I shit you not, I had a conversation with someone about the best pipe-widths for different stages of an irrigation system - FUCK THAT IS DULL - but it's not at the same time - that's what life ends up being about.
And after working on said homesteads, you're just knackered at the end of the day and don't feel like going out, you just want a shower (another mundane thing that can be very INTERESTING to set up!) food and bed!
Hopefully in the future I'll be having conversations and about solar charging systems, but I'm not quite there yet...
A standard electric metre reading, much less interesting than a solar charge display!.
I did ALMOST get involved in conversations about the War in the Ukraine, Utopian theory and some fruit-loop spirituality stuff, but I held back from going all-in, I don't have the energy for these topics anymore, I'd rather be talking about the nitty gritty of how to build things or where to source materials, it's much more interesting for me!
But it's funny, it's also fuck dull at the same time, it's just talking about the basics of life - getting excited about nothing special!
