Just wondering....

We live in a world full of people. Billions. There's no conceivable way to know everyone yet, deep down, I think many of us wonder what are the others like. What are they doing at any given moment in a day?
We get to know very few people from this planet. Even less people we get to know very, very well. You know, best friend kind of people... And even they remain a mystery to us for the most part because no one, not even in the closest of relationships can fully open to another. It is simply impossible.
My problem is not a simple one. Especially because it really bugs me sometimes. What do people that I know or simply have heard of are doing when I am not around? I don't really want to know details but the idea sounds very interesting. What's worse, it is not rare when I would like to know what people are thinking. Oh, how I would loooooove to read minds. Not necessarily to know what they are thinking about me. (Though that would be fascinating and very unpleasant at the same time. More on the subject some other time.)
I think the writer in me wants to know more about this world than I can perceive with my senses. I know myself pretty well, but I cannot possibly know everything that a person can be. Humans are complicated creatures. Each experiences things in their own way, each has its own set of experiences that cannot be felt by everyone in the same way. It is really a problem for me. Being limited in my own body is sometimes the worse torture for me.
Another problem that I had was being somewhat antisocial. I mean, I just didn't enjoy hanging with people. I still don't, but I have learned, with the right people to teach me ( and I am forever grateful to them for that), that it isn't that bad and that I can learn a lot of things by being around human beings. Things about them, about how they function, how they feel, how they work.
That is why I spend a lot of time observing those around me. I find it best not to interfere in their lives and just learn things. In time, I can know them well enough to decide if I want them to be my friends not just cases studies. It has happened.
In my writings, I had to use all types of people. Some of them are not very believable because I based them on what I thought I knew about human types. Others are copies of those I met, or simply inspired by interesting individuals I came across in my adventures so far.
I think the best characters I wrote are a mixture of the two. I don't know if readers will like them and, frankly, I don't care.  We are not supposed to like every single character in a novel. On the contrary...