>>70146425Mostly I just realized how easily most women are influenced by their social circles(I knew this already, but it's different when you watch it happen in real time across dozens of people you observe directly and frequently).
However, I also realized that there are an extremely small number of outliers.
The caveat for this post, however, is the most important one; neither of the above points are inherently positive or negative. Positive social circles exist, and they can turn lives around, and in turn those women can help turn other peoples lives around.
Similarly, there are some outliers who are bad people, and not even social circumstances are capable of leading them away from being that way.
Mind you, I don't think they're programmable robots or something extreme like that. There's always some inscrutable sense of identity in a person. I've just ended up surprised at just how drastically seemingly well-grounded girls can come to contradict themselves. And it can happen so quickly.
I'm personally more of a staunchly ideological person, and I mean that to the point of detriment. But being who I am is important to me, so I accept the issues it causes in interactions with other people. But it does scare me a little when I see somebody change so much that I can barely recognize them.
It's made me think a lot more on the nature of identity as a whole over time. I'm no autist afraid of change or anything, but I am not so stupid that I can't differentiate between natural development/growth and abrupt and unsettling distortions in a persons behavior and worldview.
