How others see me

I was in the coffee shop this morning. After my kids left a colleague joined me. She rarely works in our branch. She was talking about the closures and telling me to be a floater like her she loves the variety but I said I'm taking the redundancy. She was surprised saying she never expected me to leave.

Then someone at work stated I was the most beautiful woman he knew. This was in a conversation about him having been diagnosed with an eye condition mind you.

I realised I make these judgements of others filling in the blanks with my storyline for them. Not the actual reality they see.