Have you ever had someone describe you to someone else and when the translation of all of that gets back to you it is hard for you to believe that someone would designate you in that manner?
 
Have you ever had someone tell the story about their interactions with you and the tale that they wove was completely untrue—untrue, at least from the perspective of your own understanding of what took place and your memory of that encounter?
 
First of all, why do people discuss other people in the first place? I suppose there are a million reason for this, but when it comes down to what it ultimate comes down to, they want their interpretation of you and how they feel about you to be what other people feel, as well. They want the world to see you the way that they see you. If this projection is based upon a perspective of love and goodness, then, I guess, it’s not too bad of a thing to take place. On the other hand, if what they are saying is based in any form of negativity, then all that comes from that depiction is further resulting negativity.
 
In my life, I’ve had a number of people describe me and detail their life interaction with me. Sometimes what they say is true. Other times, however, what they are detailing is so far from the truth, at least the truth that I lived, that it is hard for me to believe. Have you ever had that happen to you?
 
The thing is, there is really nothing that you can do about the all of this. What they think, what they feel, what they detail, and how they want others to feel about you is solely based upon the perspective of their own limited consciousness. It comes from the place of who they are and how they witness and interact with the world.
 
I’ve had some people say some really mean and untrue things about me. In a few cases, when I once again encountered that individual, they were nothing but nice to me. Did I confront them about what they had previously said? Did I get all up in their business about it? Nope. I just let it go. Because what would my saying anything actually prove? Would it change what they had done and who they had said that something to? No.
 
In places in my life like the martial arts and the film game, I’ve had some people say some completely distorted things about me to others, describing situations and events based on a foundation of complete falsehood. Then, sometime later, they wanted or needed something from me, and all they were was full of praise. Situations like that always amuse me. Anything like that ever happened to you?
 
The thing is, some people wish to project their undefined life reality and unenlightened sense of that other person definition out to the world. They want the story to be told the way they want the story to be told, be it based in truth and reality or not. This is why I always warn everybody that you should never judge anyone by the way someone else describes them. You should never immediately believe a story about any other person that is being told by that someone else. Why? Because anyone who speak out about anyone else or discuss who they believe them to be is, at best, putting their own spin onto the truth of whatever reality has taken place. It is never wholly what was lived. At best, it is simply one person’s conglomeration of their interactions with that someone else, while telling the tale of that life drama in a manner that, at best, only suits themselves.