Misinterpreting

Definition of MISINTERPRET

1: to explain wrongly

2: to understand wrongly

In this word lies one of the most important concepts that I have learned in this last year. I have discovered that one of the main reasons for my mass amount of confusion is that people misinterpret me and my actions and I misinterpret theirs. What I have found to be the most confusing and now the most helpful thing to know is that my whole life I thought that people were thinking the same thing as I was thinking. I now understand that they do not. When I say something I am being straight forward, I have no hidden meaning in what I am saying. I actually had no idea that other people did have hidden messages in their words that needed a decoder to figure out.

For example, I had a friend once say to me that she wanted to leave her husband because things were so bad.

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