There will always be a box. There is nothing outside that box. Outside is rationally impossible.

I don't understand why some people think that giving in is a form of manipulation. It's really just idiocy. One of my classmates was telling me the other night about one of her ex-boyfriends. She was telling me about how manipulative he was and what she was doing in retaliation. If you can even call it that. She decided that she would be annoying and clingy to make him go away. She basically played into his hands. Did everything that he wanted her to. Became his little bitch. And then she is goes on about how she made his life a living hell so that he would leave. Yet he had demoralized her to the point where she could no longer do anything on her own.

And she was proud of this.

At least that was the impression that I got from her.

I hesitate to call her a friend for this and quite a few other facts. She is very...closed-minded. Pathetic, to say in the least, and quite simple. Nice to debate with though. It's nice to find someone who sticks to their guns and doesn't group think. Even if they are stuck in the proverbial box.

After she tells me about this story (before hand I had mentioned that I am quite good at manipulating situations and people), she asks me to manipulate some random fact out of her. I told her frankly that if I am manipulating, I spend weeks to months with one single thing. Impatience is a virtue that I have the privilege to behold, so if I want to know a random fact, I will just ask very bluntly. I wouldn't go through the trouble of trying to get an idea into someone's head or making them do what I want for something trivial or pointless.

She, I do believe, thinks that I'm full of bullshit.

Which is precisely what I want her to believe. Ah, that joys of establishing doubt. One of the easiest ideas to manipulate.

I have also shown her that I possess intelligence. We did math homework together. She copied my work and I ended up not only correcting her homework, but answering all the questions that I had about our previous assignment in doing so. And she is the one going into engineering. This worries me slightly, but isn't of too much concern to me.

Enough of my infernal ranting. I needed to get this sorted in my mind before tonight. So that I'm not talking gibberish and bitching at the bar and confusing everyone.

I will leave you with this though, dear readers: there is no box.