Psychology

I have a friend. well, not exactly a friend, but a friend of a friend. She (yes, a she!) is a psychology master or something in the local university. Studying the inner owrkings of the human mind. I thought to myself when she asked us to fill up a questionaire for her, "Hmm, why study human nature in uni when you can equally study them in the streets?" And my second question is, "Is she paying good money to know how to say "crazy" in the longest possible wording possible?"

I believe that human nature is definable through observation. For example, when you sit on a bus, at the window seat, where do you look? Do you look out the window? Do you look at your fellow passangers? Do you close your eyes? Where you look can tell an observer something about you. If you look out the window, you are the more introverted type, shy and avoids social contact if possible, a dreamer or your're sad/down/discouraged. It is a sign of you. It's ego.

If you tend to look at the passangers, and in the process strike up a conversation with them, you're the more sociable type, confident, a doer or you're happy/peppy/happy-go-lucky. It is a sign that you're interested in other people. It's about them, not you. It's likeble/popular.

If you close your eyes, it means that you're sleeping, afraid of eye contact, afraid of social contact to a degree far worse than looking out the window, unable to face reality and yourself. It is still about you, but more specifically, your fear. You are uncertain and unsure of yourself, selling yourself short in the things you do.

Honestly now, I made up all the above. But that is the impression I get when I look at people in busses, trains and in the mall. It is interesting what story lies behind the way they look at things. Admitedly, I stare, really hard, at those people. Probably explains why generally people are afraid of me! LOL! What I'm trying to say is, go to the mall/shopping centre, buy a cup of tea, sit down on a bench, and watch the people walk pass you. You will be surprised that there are many stories to be told by the way people talk, walk, buy or even sit. Now, this is better than sitting in a room full of students and trying to remember the meaning of schizophreny.