A blessing and a curse

For some time now, I've been having this thoughts that maybe, maybe I do have super powers.

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I have this friend at my hostel who always comes to me for advise almost on any issue, and this includes real life problems, girls and anything you can think of. At first I didn't think much about it because to me, it's just two friends having a conversation and advising each other. But as time goes on, I started to realise how accurate most of the advise I gave him turned out to be and even I was impressed with myself.

As the year went on, I soon realized that I have a gift, one could even call it special, it's a gift of being able to predict what people would most likely do next in certain situations. And for a while now I've been testing to see how accurate these predictions can get and trust me when I say the results has been impressive.

At first I didn't realize how powerful having such a mind can get but then I started to explore how far I could get with it and that was when I found out how manipulative I can get and that is why I call this a blessing and a curse.

You see, I call it a blessing because their have been multiple occasions where my friends have come to me with problems, seeking my advise on how to solve them and everything I had said to them ends up happening. Sometimes I even go further to predict the response they would get from the other person and it happens too.

And then there's the curse part, the part where I see flaws when interacting with people and I get the urge to want to explore those flaws, to manipulate them into doing what I want without them actually knowing it. I won't lie, I've done this a couple of times and as usual, everything always plays out the way I want it but then I end up feeling bad about it later on.

I'm not saying that I'm trying to be a saint, I just feel like maybe being that manipulative isn't a good thing and I know that calling this a special ability or a super power is me exaggerating because at the end of the day, all I really am is an overthinker, a person who tries to think of every possible way something can go either right or wrong before during that thing.

Well, at the end of the day, I feel that I could use this whole thing to do some good, like helping my friends solve some of their problems and hopefully I don't end up becoming a villain, using it for selfish reasons.