The mirror flips you left to right. Maybe that’s why you never quite see yourself the way others do.

The version of yourself you know best is the one nobody else has ever seen. You have spent a lifetime with a reversed image and an inside view, while everyone else forms impressions from something slightly different. Neither picture is the true one, and only one of them is in the room with other people.

When someone describes you in a way that does not match, try holding it as a genuine observation rather than a mistake. Ask what they saw that led there. You will not resolve the difference, and you will get a more complete picture than either view alone.