surprised
people always tell you not to care about what others think of you and be true to yourself. because you shouldnt have to justify your actions to others. but lately i have found that this principle might not work as well as i thought it did. because ive discovered that people view me far differently than how i view myself. not that i have this egotistical view of myself where i can see nothing wrong with me because believe me i know there is plently wrong with me, although there is probably even more that i dont know about. but ive discovered that people only see a certain side of you and thats what they base their opinions of you on, so their view of you might be skewed. in which case they are free to judge without all of the evidence. does that unsettle you? i suppose you wouldnt care about people who arent your friends, but what about your own friends? would it bother you that they think you are someone else than you really are? and by no concious effort of your own, simply the fact that they dont know you well enough. and then you have to think that you probably dont know them that well either, no matter how intuitive you think you might be. so all of your opinions about that person, what are they worth? they could be entirely wrong.