You're being manipulated

"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first in a forest and so is true with honest people" ( in short they are manipulated first) - Chanakya

Some great inspiring and insightful words by the famous Chanakya Pandit who lead Chandragupt maurya's rise as a king backed by sound political principals and ethics... 

We're all manipulators and victims of manipulation in different ways... We do it intentionally, or many a times sub-consciously without leaving a trace of evidence... whether it was for a chance for a date with the new girl who joined your class recently or for getting a good job... we all do it all the time without making a fuss around it.

Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. Social influence is not necessarily negative, For e.g. my so called good friend tried some such technique on me...So that i could forget the love of my life... Well she was successful in doing this... In hind sight I am happy she did that; but hello ultimately it meant using some tricks to alter emotional construct right!

but a fundamental doubt or contention which in such a situation is - isn't this whole thing against morality; or forget morality for the time being; isn't manipulation unethical! for all we know we all are actually playing with some-one's emotions and mental construct...

If you have ever found your self madly in love with someone that did not deserve it ... crying and sobbing but feeling that you cannot break free ... if you have ever found your self doing something that you never really wanted to do ...  only to keep doing it more often ... then chances are that you have been manipulated at least once in your life.


the manipulators, if yu ask them, would seldom agree whether they have a methodology behind this...in larger probability they would deny all of this... Or if they are honest with you(which is not true) they will say i don't take conscious efforts in this direction...


well let me tell you they are liers of the first order... A friend shared a link, so called forward, think its on purpose( see a friend trying to manipulate :D) {link attached below}... And when i saw it i realized this is just one such way of manipulation... There are so many others which would qualify for the same criteria...But as they say manipulation is not completely bad... But certainly check out the video... I am sure we all have come across such a person who has done this to us...Once or more number of times... A clear example of how people manipulate...

So now i assume that you have got an indication what is manipulation... the random video above is a testimony to the fact how we use manipulation for our benefit...


But kya karey yaar... i think we all are subject to this kind of manipulation(well not only the way shown is in the video)


now that i have managed to write all of this - DID YOU REALISE... i too have managed to attempt to manipulate your mind with my argument above...Din't you just think about the person who did something like this to you!