Greetings to all of my dear readers.
Have you ever misunderstood the words that other people have said to you? I hope not... it happens to me very often, whether reading messages in another language or speaking in my mother tongue which is Spanish.
It is common in my life that people want to say something that I interpret in my own way. I have a very volatile mentality, I go very fast to the future. Many times my thoughts are not the most accurate and I conclude with a wrong idea.
Recently a person wanted to help me and left a comment on one of my posts about my little cat. I misunderstood his message, after I was translated with my “trusty” online translator, once the message was translated the sentences had a bad wording, as a result I misunderstood and I ended up feeling offended. I immediately replied, not in a rude way because I always try to not be rude, and I just ended explained in a very harsh way my point of understanding... and it was all wrong.
Then I involved a third person who also wrote something that was mistranslated. I also replied inadequately, until I understood... I was very sad about what happened thinking that I had been treated badly in the comments and I told my son, who knows English, he immediately read the comments and told me that they had been translated badly.
At that point I just became much sadder, because I wrote my point of view to people who just wanted to help me and I was just misinterpreting everything…
You can't imagine how much I cried when I felt I was treated badly and then I cried even more when I realized, thanks to my son, that I had misunderstood everything. I cried until my nose was stuffed up and as red as Santa's reindeer nose.
Then I went back to my post and apologized one by one to the two people who want to help me. I had no words to apologize.
See? I made a whole movie out of thinking beyond what I should have.
But the wrong was done, the words were written. The answers were given. Now what should I do with my shame? I have no choice but to move on, to learn from this, think well what I am going to say after reading something I don't like.
From this I have concluded that... the tools we use online and serve as translators don't always get it right.
It’s not always the best decision to answer immediately when I feel aggrieved.
It’s always good to think coldly about the situation and then yes, pick up with a more focused head and respond.
I don't like confrontations, but sometimes I myself bring them about, with my misunderstandings. It is one of the things that over the years I have not been able to overcome.
Maybe this way of understanding some things that people say, apart from the bad translation, is because of my mind. I have always been a realist but my mind is very fanciful, hence my stories. My mind can recreate many situations in a single story I tell.
And to think that I am not one of those who watch novels on TV but it must be my subconscious from when I was very young. I keep in my mind the novel formats and from time to time I create things that are not.
But I ask myself now and I ask you the question... have you ever misinterpreted the spoken or written words that someone has said to you? Anyone, be it a friend, family or a public servant.
Because it happens to me all the time to the point that I think I think I'm strange to the rest of the world. So this is a good opportunity to find out if there are other people near me who know that they have misunderstood others, that they have realized it and have had to apologize…
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My apologies to all of my readers, currently I’m experiencing technical difficulties and am unable to use the site, but I can at least post this…
It happens to me all the time too but I don't easily react. If I feel offended I keep it all to myself. But don't worry, what you have experienced is normal and it happens to a lot of people. What is important is that you have cleared things out and reconciled with the other party.