They don't know

There is nothing weird or bad about it. I think the majority of us do that. It's just interesting to think what other people have been through. Other peoples lives are often more interesting to us than our own. I mean we already know all about our own life. It's just human nature to be curious. I mean why do you think people are so interested in celebrities? It's just that we like to know about other people. I stop and think about people I just meet often wondering what they have been through and where they are going. People go through such interesting things in their lives, and often times most of us don't find our own lives interesting, but the thing is others usually do. We have all had different experiences and had things happen that many others have never been through themselves. So for them it's new and interesting. I am not sure I can throw out all of my thoughts on the subject as it is late and my mind is kind of a jumble thinking about it, but my point is we are human, and we find other people interesting because they are so different from us, and maybe even a little similar but it's the combination that seems to intrigue us if that makes sense.

Yes since I have been very young I have done this. But I often know a lot about someone within a few moments of meeting them. I have told some about themselves and it startles them. I know so much about them within a short few moments. Why first I have insight in reading people, always have had. But also people give a lot away in body signs, eyes, speaking, walk, stance. Even in how they dress, style and even vehicles they drive and phones they choose and use to even ring tones. Who they are with as well. So I do read people and rarely am I ever wrong about them, their life and way they live and think. But while I do this most don't know much about me or read me right and often are very wrong if they think they know. Only close family and true long time friends know me. I don't really wonder about some I just usually know about them even if they are rural, city, small town etc.

I also try to guess about a new person whom I happen to meet. Like you various questions about him keep coming in my mind. If I happen to meet a new person in my office in connection with official dealings, I ask from my friends/colleahues about him.

I find it weird that you do that every time you meet people. For me, when i meet people and get to know them, i don't think of the why's and how's about the person. I accept him/her as he/she is. As our friendship deepens that's the time the why's and how's are answered about them.

Why is it bad? I think most people do so although they will call it different. And who says they don't know you are doing so?

It takes a great deal to understand a person's perception and his/her mentality. It needs a great study to assess a person's behavior and attitude. The surroundings, financial background and the community he/she lives in accounts to a person's behavior/character and all that he/she needed is a proper grooming.

For me its normal, its a self mechanism in each everyone of us. We have to know the person as well for us to trust them. As human beings, we are just curious on everything, we want to know, we want to learn that is what we are. We live because everyday we learn something. This is our way of survival.

Actually, if it was a weird thing to do, then you are not alone! I also do the same thing. And I guess, it is more than just being interested about the person, but as well being cautious of what kind of person he/she really is. Coz, we may never know what they can do to us. Of course, we only want to deal with people whom we can be safe.