Its pretty easy to get your thoughts swayed into thinking about certain matters, whether or not your a skeptic, whether or not your oversensitive and whether or not you act like you care. Theres plenty of times when influences come into the arena of life and they take shape in the form of peer pressure, uneasy emotions, worry and therefore commitment etc. You can influenced through classroom politics, through peer connectivity, through a cause-cum-effect thought process. Its almost like playing a game of magic cards, (I don't play, but I been around the hardcorers long enough to learn the rules) theres plenty of "in response to"s you can assume and play out. Corrupted with the simple analogy of a empty box being filled, influence is really a pretty simple and yet interesting component of the human life.

With this aura of influence surrounding the pillars of foundative life, the potential differences of a distortion, an exaggeration, a assumption and a hypothesis would be turned around into a democratic election without the essence of intellect nor originality; the point of such democracy would also probaly be largely capitalist-based. When someone says he wants to be influential, he assumes that his gathering clout and respect from fellow comrades or even those whose existence which must be deemed significant. But nowadays, its not really power that motivates the mindsets of the average man. Dictatorship is largely seen as morally, socially, politically and indulgentatively not equal to a worship multiplier. Meritocracy through capitalistic views have converted many to be strugglers to get the hot seats that they want and its probaly through influence that he will gander a much better chance.

But besides a common desire, influence is also in a majority when spoke of in a negetive light. Yes, we have the stereotype 'bad influences'; a step futher we have the hidden influences that might or might not concern relationships. For instance, unreciprocated love and unknown vengence. Or maybe the under-table sword battles of vengence where both parties try their best to imitate the cold war and undergo many proxy situations. Sometime, its just a very simple case of you not being able to tolerate the negetive ablity of a certain character in your life. The influence of the person might be a painful thorn in your flesh that secretes poison everytime the topic is mentioned. In such cases, influence is bad and unwanted.

Because humans themselves know and notice that they will be easily influenced, it is educationally encouraged to spend more time with the intellectuals and the people whom you want to emulate and learn from. Through such sessions of intentional or sincere bonding, there would be influence gandered and therefore the infection on your trys its luck at surviving. If the medication is extended, the effect is defintely strongly unless feelings of negetivity creeps in, which will turn the story into an influence of poison instead. Sometimes, 'bonding sessions of influence' doesn't need to come from legal and pronounced parties who do commutative performances. And a certain goal in mind to a specific vengence or want is vital at giving green light to excellent bonding and electrostatical influence. For instance, my whole robotics club is so bonded and strong because we spend lots of time together saying that robotics is a sucky cca and hold debates, discussions and critique sessions, expressing ourselves creatively to cite the qualities of the school, teachers, system and justice that we dislike. (It might lack substance, but the aggresiveness and communist-styled aggresion more than makes up for it) Thus, the sphere of influence gets larger and more firery as agreement and bonding combusts.

The effects of influence are yin-yang--like. Theres the good, the bad, the ugly and the copy. I.e. One can be motivated from the influence and decide to go better, one can be corrupted by the influence and decide to do worse, one can exaggerate the influence or distort it and mess up the acutality with no original, sincere, askance, and finally, one can appreciate, nod or be inspired at the influence and attempt to emulate it. Of course, I do not speak of the neutral as I consider them as not getting influenced in the first place. But statistically and logically speaking, people will be influenced at some point or another in a certain epoch that concerns a crossing of paths for two or more parties.

Then again, what to be influenced by and how much you want to be influenced is really determined by the victim. It depends on your identity, how much you predict or stimulate a certain relationship to be and if you want to take the stuff in or not.

So, are you influenced by my words? (I'll leave the imprint of influence through this hint of paradox.)

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