You can always be misunderstood. Be kind anyway.
I learn now that it is so easy to be misunderstood by people, no matter how hard you try to do everything right, or how you try to understand people, or how a system works. No matter how good the person you think you have been all this time, there will be times you will be misunderstood and even misjudged, sometimes from the people you didn't expect to do so. If you think you can be soft so that people will easily understand you, then maybe you need to think about it again. I have been soft (most of the time) and still being misunderstood. Some people think I am too slow and apathetic and unmotivated when I am actually being soft. When I am being stubborn and headstrong because of having a mood swing or a bad day or somebody just pisses me off, some people think I am disrespectful or have a bad-manner, when I am actually just trying hard not to burst into negative emotion. I learn now that it is hard to please everyone. You can't expect everyone you meet to understand ...