I have a friend who is a very nice guy, and I genuinely think he's a great person. However, anytime I spend and extended amount of time around him, I get super exhausted, because most of the time, our "conversations" just center around his interests, repeating the same beats and the same things in the same way.
he'll send me tiktoks about his interests, because he brought them up in conversation and half the time I have nothing to say
It's not like he doesn't know that I don't really have any interest in these things. I legitimately have nothing I can respond with because he just keeps talking, just expelling his entire thought proccess.
I understand he has his interests, but I never corroborate on them, I never have anything to say and I tell him that. We have other things and common interests to talk about, and we can genuinely have a good conversation.
I might sound like a bad friend, and I sometimes feel that myself, but I just cannot hold a conversation with this person without losing my mind. I have terrible social skills. I know he cares for me and thats why he loves talking to me, but I just am not even in the same planet of consciousness as him.
I'm worried that maybe I've been feigning interest (not intentionally) and so he genuinely thinks that I'm super into the topics he brings up.
I'm not sure if I should try to find a way to just "be interested" or if I should maybe mention more often that it kinda bothers me.