like occasionally when i'm walking along a high up bridge, my mind will start involuntarily contemplating jumping, and then the analytical part will start taking in details of the area below and try to determine the best spot to hit if i want it to be probably instant death. and all the while i'm sorta disturbed by such lines of thought because i'm actually a pretty happy person and in no way suicidal at all
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sometimes it feels sorta like there's an alternate darker flip side to my personality lurking in my subconscious and the thoughts from that side just sorta bubble to the surface at time. Not like voices or anything, but just whenever i catch myself being morbidly curious, or randomly thinking things that seem utterly wrong and out of character for me. Things like, what would happen, if i were to randomly gut someone like a fish in the street with a paring knife or example. Thinking over the widespread consequences of such an action, and semi-fascinated at how with disturbing ease, and just momentary slip of control and/or sanity, someone can both ruin their own future, destroy someone else's, and affect deeply the multitude of others who are connected to them. Though after some introspection, i suppose it's not actually these horrible things i'm fascinated with, so much as just the psychological factors behind them, since incidentally i'm also very interested by just people and how the mind: works, reasons, responds. Our human nature, the pathos & ethos, etc. How the mind can flex and break, and the very subtle thin line between sanity and madness. The duality and hypocrisy that lies in all our inner beings. The countless facets and components that make up an individual's personality so that no two will ever be exactly alike. The brain is an amazing thing. An ever-changing, evolving thing of seeming boundless possibility. A beautiful patchwork of order and chaos, perception and reality, conscious and subconscious, sanity and insanity, and simply trying to distinguish any one element in any of the the pairs from it's counterpart in any significant sort of way.