Reactions to minor occurrences
I'm a pretty analytical person. I analyze the things around me and I analyze myself. Mostly it's just to try to figure things out, without a real purpose or goal in mind. It's been interesting to discover (sometimes by myself, sometimes with other people) how this quirk is changing or affecting me. It's well-known in meditation circles that the act of observing thy self, changes thy self. (This is getting too meta!)
If something tiny and inconsequential happens in any daily situation, I tend to notice it. If I'm alone, I just sort of notice it and then carry on whatever I was doing before. If I'm around someone else and I'm looking for a way to engage in some kind of conversation, any tiny thing that happens tends to be good for that sort of thing. So I'll react to a phone vibrating, or somebody laughing in another room, or a door slamming, or whatever. My instincts on these matters are usually pretty good; a conversation will usually result. But if the situation is awkward in any way, or something that I want to alleviate, disregard, and otherwise send away, I will not react. If you play poker, this is a classic tell. When someone has a really good hand, they want to discourage people from folding, so they'll withdraw, act very quiet, and otherwise not try to rock the boat in the hopes that the situation will progress in their favor. They want others to think everything is well. Yet, it's sometimes tangential to this. I usually act very quietly to not rock the boat, but only in an attempt to discourage the awkward situation from continuing. My default instinct is that any change will keep this unwanted scenario, not rid me of it. This is usually correct (I think). I don't really see either of these traits as bad things, other than the possible application it may have to my poker game. (That will eternally need forward progress.) I've recently turned my attention from trying to figure out machines and concepts to figuring out people. And boy, is it interesting.
