3 levels of others’ understanding of you

Passion
3 min readAug 3, 2022

Understanding is an important word when it comes to life. Misconception happens due to some level of misunderstanding that takes place. This may be with the persons we spend most of our days with such as families, and friends.

Should it be safe to say that our family undoubtedly are the ones that know you the most, speaking about the family members that you would’ve grown up with within a household? They are given a better sense of who you are on a daily basis. For instance, are you a person who leaves the dishes in the sink after use even though it’s empty, or do you leave the washroom in a mess after use? It’s fair to say that they are given a different perspective of who you may portray at home. Let’s agree to disagree, there certain acts you wouldn’t do in front of them. This then brings us to the next outlook where they may not understand you in the sense of why you behave the way in which you do, this can also lead to toxicity if the end result of that is constant arguments. This raises a question about the relationship that the family shares, and the communication level between a child and a parent or sibling relationship. This also impacts the factor to what extent your family understands you.

A person that may have a better idea of you based on the conversations you guys have, would be a friend. Thus it also comes back to the depth of the relationship you guys share due to the fact that even with a status of a friend. There are certain things you guys don’t discuss for that person to have a better understanding of who you are. Generally, if you’re an outgoing person, you interact with your friends the most when it comes to going to activities, thus if you per se drink a lot and demonstrate a wild side then that’s a side of you that only them would know especially if you don’t behave like this around your family. They would also be able to pull you up in situations that are out of character.

The person that knows you the most is you, kind of a weird thing to say to be honest. This is the ultimate form of understanding because not all the time you would openly express yourself to others even to the closest person you’re with. I assume we all are like our own best friend, that discuss things in our heads. This may not be everyone but if one discusses something with themselves, it’s like you already went through that discussion, so you don’t need to do it with anyone else. Note, that’s a few times in which that take place as it we all naturally do need someone to share certain things with.

There are more depths to the levels of understanding, more can be said, more can be debated. Thus, it is still an important factor in life that can solve and keep the peace of many things.

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