On Being Misunderstood :

Have you ever felt misunderstood? I guess we all have.

Sometimes we felt that people do not understand us. Being misunderstood is one of the worst scenarios that we do not want to experience. 

However, there is always this so-called communication barrier that hinders the transmission of the message that we would like to convey. What we need to do is just to accept if we commit mistakes and then let go.

However, if our feeling of being misunderstood is due to our desire to control the situation, that's the time when we feel hurt. But if we realized our mistakes in what we said, we just need to apologize. It's normal to commit mistakes.

Yet, no matter how we want to be seen, people will always have their own perception on us. They will misunderstand and misinterpret our words and our actions. 

We just have to understand them instead of letting them understand us. We need to appreciate that the world is not revolving around us.

We're highly emotional individuals. A lot of what we say or do is driven by our emotions. We feel angry, upset, disappointed, and hurt to people we do not know if they understood us clearly.

We have to discern that we cannot please everybody. Instead of trying to explain our opinions, we just have to move on and do something that is more meaningful to us.We just drop the issue and move on.

Others can be most frustrating, especially when wrong impressions persist despite our efforts to banish them. 

There were times that we fail to express our thoughts with the desired accuracy. We do not intend to offend other people somehow but it really happen sometimes.

On the other hand, when we recognize the disapproval that we get from others is well-founded, we are hurt too. In this type of circumstances, 

I am always willing to acknowledge my own imperfections. Being open and frank to other people will reward us with respect instead of criticism.

Nobody is perfect. So, misunderstandings and hurt are inevitable. Anyone can talk in a way that sounds insensitive or unkind to us. 

Feeling misunderstood is never that pleasurable especially when our motives are misjudged and our actions are misinterpreted. Much of the strife in misunderstanding comes from our unwillingness to clear our consciences.

We just have to be considerate and tolerant in dealing with such circumstances. So, instead of trying to let other people understand us, we should be the one trying to understand them for not understanding us.

I want to share this article to everybody because I am also always being misunderstood by my fellow. They always thought that I am high and mighty but if they just give their selves time to know me, perhaps they will understand my predicament.

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