being interesting/thoughts on "characters"

"interesting" is like "funny"; it depends on your audience. To an alien who had never seen a human, any one of us would be interesting. To a movie star, I bet none of us would be interesting.

Maybe no-one really exists in the sense that we think we do; perhaps and we are just a mirror. Perhaps the idea of "personality" is fundamentally flawed. When it comes down to it, the more people I meet the more I realise that no human being is very interesting, in fact it's only distance and perception which makes them interesting. Sure, they can say interesting things sometimes, but really it's just because they happen to have a brain that works pretty well and can assimilate and regurgitate information in an effective or distinct way, but the actual process taking place is no different in any human being - the difference is only one of degree, not of kind.I find myself getting less and less taken in by "characters" - they've simply tweaked their animal instincts slightly better than others, but really they're no different, and when you get to know them, they let you down.I find humanity itself interesting, but the life of any one individual is usually pretty routine and boring when you get close enough to see through the smokescreens.