The View

Learning human behavior... reading body language... nearly predicting what someone will do next... these are the things I've been working on.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. However I've been getting better at predicting peoples behavior and knowing what to expect. While doing this, knowing how to navigate people to a certain extent.

I admit probing people in a way to get information to test certain theories about people...

The view so far is that i'm still learning... However, in all of this, i'm learning how to control my emotions. How to be able to stop myself from getting overly angry or getting emotionally interested in situations. I've come to realize how people either subconsciously or consciously use other peoples emotions to their advantage.

I've come to notice this first with my cousin Corey and my ex. At first I was convinced by her that he wasn't stable and had emotional issues. This had moved to being potentially bipolar and then to other potential mental problems. After studying the situation closely, I realized that what it seems to boil down to is his simple map of the world that's still growing. He's currently in a position where people in his environment accept his attitude as being "agressive". Because they know this, they will react to his actions more easily. To this he can evoke an emotion from people by reacting and essentially fueling his fire. Because of his environment, he knows how to read people quickly. He's had no choice given his upbringing. Because of this, he was able to "relate" to my ex on the sole basis that he and her can read people given their upbringing.

The whole point of this is that while she's trying to get him help for how he is... He's simply a product of his environment. He knows how to manipulate people to his advantage. The prime example is how he understand how to use my ex and manipulate her
into doing what he wants. she's getting him help and showing certain emotions that he can read and use to his advantage. He knows that he can get away with being overly angry because she'll cave emotionally. So, while she thinks she's helping him to get better, he's simply playing her as he would any situation.

All this to say that one can start to notice patterns in people, and when they can and cannot change. When they are ready for a change, or when they are simply faking it.

Emotions are extremely dangerous when one doesn't know how to control them or how they can be controlled.

OK... now to eventually re-read my post and see if it made any sense... I was lost in other thoughts for a moment!