People don’t always see you for who you are. They look at you, but what they really see is shaped by their mood, their past, what they expect, or what they’re afraid of. Even your silence, your tone, or the way you move can mean something totally different to them than what you intended. They can turn your calm into coldness, your honesty into rudeness, your tiredness into disinterest. Their view of you is filtered, edited, sometimes even made up. It's not always fair, but it happens. You become an idea in their head, not the full version, just a fragment, and often not the right piece.