I have a wierd status in most of the circles I have been apart of. I have been the sounding board for as long as I can remember. I am the naysayer, not pessimist mind you, I just set people up for the disappointment. I then can be there if they do fail, but more importantly be there when they succeed and prove me wrong. Sometimes having and not having encouragement is the key, the little extra something that pushed people to excel where no others believed they would.

I am that kind of person that will tell you straight up that I don’t think you could do something, then shrug it off when you do, while inside I gauge how much influence my negativity had on your progress or completion of task. I am for lack of a better way of explaining, a social engineer. I can at a glance tell whether I will like a person, after a meeting, know whether I can have a work relationship/freindly aquaintance. I can also tell what type of person people will be given certain stimuli and use questions and statements to gauge what I would need to say to a person to elicit certain responses. With freinds it becomes easy to know what needs to be said to get a reaction to change moods and outlooks. With strangers it becomes a way to push them away or draw them in to a deeper relationship.

This gets me into trouble a lot with my wife.

I ofcourse only use this power for the good of mankind…..evildooers beware!