Hi Joe,

My experience is exactly the same as yours including the tendencies that you described about yourself, about others reaction to this and also about having a very short attention span.

I have been working on on what to do in such situations.

Until the instant that one gets irritated and finds it insulting, one is in deep presence, but has lost it later. Prior to that everything was fine, everything was just peaceful awareness. We have been drawn towards their storm, instead of remaining in our own peace.

Some useful resources that I have found related to this are as below-

Video by Eckhart Tolle-
www.
eckharttollenow(dot)com
/new-home-video
/default.aspx
?free=/587356704/

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Along with a few others some key tips to be taken are-
-don’t feed yourself to the egoic conversations of others
-if they don’t find you interesting then its their problem
-if people find you boring then that’s fine

Another video not fully related but useful in some way-
www.
youtube(dot)com
/watch?v=ksnTzdNQru8

I am constantly working on these and it is nice to know someone else is also in the same situation.

Warm Regards,
VJ

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