Top 5 things in life that fascinate you.
Fascinate is an interesting word.
Psychology. All facets of it. Anything that has to do with a person’s psyche is just infinitely interesting to me, not to mention the mental health diagnosis process, medications, therapy and alternative treatments, theories, diagnosis criteria and the fact that they are ever-changing… I could go on, okay.
Sociology, and I’m counting this separately because it’s really a separate field. The way people interact — with others, with themselves to an extent, animals, the differences between family and friends, and I am extraordinarily interested in the developing ‘internet/online sociology’ and the differences between social interaction between people online vs. people that meet face-to-face.
Twins. This probably seems weird but twins really, really fascinate me, and I’ll lump multiples in general in here also, but mainly twins. The connection that they share, the differences in that between fraternal and identical, the dream process and frequency of shared dreams, the statistical probability of twins being able to answer each others’ unasked questions (ie: “where —” “under your desk”), how twins cope with separation whether willing or not, how romantic relationships develop, if they experience a “gap/hole” when living apart for any reason, and just specifically their general psychological/sociological aspects.
Foreign languages! I don’t really know any, aside from some very rusty, rudimentary French, but they are infinitely fascinating, especially those that use entirely different alphabets from our own. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, and so on, the way what we would perceive as “letters” are actually words for them, the perfection required to write in their languages, and beyond that, the grammatical structure of so many languages, the combination of words that can say something entirely different when tweaked just slightly, and so on.
The English language! Pretty similar to foreign languages in how it can be manipulated, how slang is derived so commonly, the grammatical structure and vast number of synonyms for some words while others are almost singularly used for their definition, the near-forgotten words that are beautiful in how archaic they’ve almost become, Olde English and just old fashioned speech patterns and colloquialisms and just… all of that!
