taoshen

I have two curses.

First ... I over analyze ... everything. If I get into a conversation with someone and they start out "Nice weather. Think it'll rain today?" I'll be fine until the conversation is over ... then I'll be wondering "Nice weather? What the hell did they mean by that?" Not necessarily in a negative way, mind you ... just honestly wondering if there was a second, deeper meaning I missed.

Okay, maybe I'm not so bad as to question 'nice weather', but you get the picture. I always second guess myself, and I always wonder if I'm missing some important clue to what's really going on around me. It's not quite paranoia, but it does border on it. It's a sickness.

Now here's the strange part ... I don't do that with online conversations ... I usually take those at face value ... I'm thinking in my future interactions with all peoples there should be a keyboard and monitor involved.

That's pretty much it ... I'm an over-analyzer. Now I don't want people saying to me "THIS ... IS .. WHAT ... I ... MEAN... BY ... THIS" every time we talk ... that takes the fun out of my over-analyzing later. The other weird part, is the over-analyzing doesn't really affect me on a day to day basis (just in situations where I have probably talked myself out of approaching a woman because "she just wants to be friends" ... *sigh* ... either way, my friends stay my friends, and I don't think once ever in my over-analyzing have I come up with somehting the person in question probably really didn't intend) ...

Oh, and the second curse? I grow a lot of hair, fangs, and claws on a full moon ... but I've been assured that's really just normal ...