It can be a little disconcerting at times, the way people are. I enjoy sitting in a little corner with a cuppa in my hands, just analyzing people – why do they behave in such a manner and the likes.
It’s titillating trying to discern what the other person is exactly thinking about when he or she is talking to you. Are they telling you the truth, or are they just hiding behind a veil of smiles, telling you a certain thing while malevolent thoughts are running through their mind.
Deciphering a person’s thought is a form of art. Kind of dissecting a cadaver to solve the mystery of how the victim died. Does the victim died of asphyxiation, or of apoplectic seizure? One would have to slice the body and peel off the layers to find the answer.
Pardon me for the explicit analogy. But the above mentioned analogy is perfect to describing how one decipher a person’s thought.
You may ask, why would one want to do so.
Some people may give you complicating and contradicting answers. Some may even brush you off.
For me, I’ve always prefer the simplicity because it is the simplicities of the answer that strikes closer to home.
I enjoy exposing hypocrites, laughing at them when their words backfired on them. The tables are turned, they have no choice but to either confess or walk away.
Some may perceive that the art of, I shall use the term loosely, “mind reading”, is unethical or even unorthodox. I’d say, such people who harps on this is even worse.
These are the people who claim to dislike any forms of violence. But yet they’re more oft than not, the ones who crowd around the scene of violence, waiting for the volcano to erupt so that they can spread the speculations around and boasting that they were there to witness the gruesome scene. Shortly after the hype, they would comment and try to portray themselves as some sort of saints.
I don’t believe in saints or angels. I believe that there, within us, resides a streak of cruelty that yearns to see violence and gore. The people who are sadists just have a thicker streak of cruelty in them.
Cruelty creates chaos and chaos give way to darkness.
That streak of darkness should be hailed instead of shun.
For without darkness, where would the light be?
And therein, lies the beauty of cruelty.