Misunderstanding will always be a fact of life. The diversity of humans makes it impossible to reliably interpret other people's emotions, especially when there

Misunderstanding will always be a fact of life. The diversity of humans makes it impossible to reliably interpret other people's emotions, especially when there is not a strong cultural context. We just need to learn to communicate openly and explicitly. What creeps me out is that so many people have zero self-awareness that there is a difference between what has been communicated and their interpenetration of it. They will be in a bad mood and conclude the text they just received must have been written in a very rude "tone". They see your face and conclude you must be angry at them. They take their subjective interpretation as the same as the objective truth and absolute hate to be challenged. The believe themselves to be "empaths" and "good communicators". If you think you are very accurate at understanding other people's emotions, you are not. That is not possible. The inside state of people can not be measured by looking at their outside expression, you can only make predictions. You have to ask people how they feel.