You've known all along to remember the movies you've seen...

Apparently I am more insightful than I thought.
A friend asked me last night  "How do you know so much about how men act, Karla?" my immediate response was "movies, I watch a lot of movies." I delivered this message in a slow calm voice. But now that I have time to think about it, it's because of how I choose my friends. Not the answer to the question asked, but the question that is really being asked: "How do you know so much about people, Karla?"
I don't know about you. As for me I am always watching a movie. The movie of life. -- I sit down, make myself comfortable and I sit quietly watching, intently, upon the characters that I am about to get to know intimately, as If, I have known them my whole life, and say nothing. For the duration of two hours , I get to watch the story of their life unveil before me.
Isn't that what everyone dose when they sit to watch a movie? sometimes there's popcorn, sometimes an intermission (God I hate intermissions!) and sometimes someone pushes the pause button, your snapped back to reality and you wait. How rude; you think to yourself, and you reflect on that movie you were watching, you start to relate it to your own life, then you begin to predict the ending of the movie. The rude person comes back, sits down, and the show continues...
There is a song by Kate Muccuci called "Only Begun" one of the lines in that song relates to this story she says " you've known all along, To remember the movies you've seen, With the bar and the smokes and the good and bad folks, Yeah, the lessons they teach you are free, It's an opinion, so hey, Take the opinion and run, You've only begun" Remember the movies you've seen... the lessons they teach you are free. I'm not ganna lie, I spent a great deal of my childhood in front of the tv. My favorite shows were cartoons that had a storyline, a heroic journey and hard learned lessons along the way. Unfortunately there are also the cartoons that have no lesson to be learned and are made purely for entertainment value, those are great in their own way too, but they give cartoons a bad name. This is why it's important to be aware of what your kids watch on tv. You need to make sure they are watching the good tv shows and not the ones that rot your brain. I could give u a list of bad tv, but I'm not going to trail that far off the subject. My point is, people in general watch a lot of tv, and if you are only taking in the tv at face value than you are waiting your time. Sure in real life there are no happy endings, but in real life people do have a chance at happiness, So why not learn a thing or two from tv?
So when I'm the new girl in a classroom or an office building, I'm polite, quiet (comes off as shy) and I intently do whatever it is I am supposed to be doing, but I also pay attention to a few key things:
What people are wearing, (this is usually the fastest way for you to know if this is the kind of person you would hang out with, sorry non judgmental people but its true. judging a book by its cover is the fastest way to find friends) and on that note, I hope that you are appropriately dresses and groomed as well, because you don't want to scare off your target friend by making the wrong impression.
What the people are talking about and how they deliver what they are saying... this is like listening to a comedian you can tell how good he is by how quickly everyone gets the joke. Pay attention to how people talk, you can easily figure out so many things about a person by the tone of their voice.  For example: A person of the opposite sex is talking to you, you cannot tell if they like you, or if they just want to be friends, or if they just want to get into your pants, (which I promise, is not the same thing as liking you) They say something like I think about  -- a) you sometimes, b) asking you out sometimes c) how bright your eyes are. they say a- they are your friend, probably a good one. b- they like you, most likely a lot. c--- they just want to get into your pants. yes I learned this from watching people and watching tv.
Finally you want to pay attention to how much they talk about themselves, or other people. This will let you know how good of a person they are, if they are selfish or if they are generous or if they are meanies etc etc.
and if you ever get the chance to see how they live... don't get me started....
This is how I meet people, because for a while they don't realize I'm there, but once I know who they are, I know how to behave myself around them. I know how much of my personal life I can share with them, I know how much I can trust them, and up to a certain point I can figure out if I want to hang out with that person outside of school/ office settings.
P.S. I will get back to  you guys with lists of must see tv to learn different lessons of life. For now I leave you with that thought, Tv, don't take it for granted. Those script writers didn't come up with that stuff out of thin air, unless its a really dumb tv show...
anyways,,, have fun :)