Strangers
and acquaintances do not treat you with either respect or disrespect
because of "who you really are". There's no way for them to know "who
you really are", so don't believe you are wonderful or awful just
because of the way you get treated by other people. Humans respond to
the way THEY FEEL, not the way YOU ACTUALLY ARE. Even people you've
known for a long time don't necessarily know "who
you really are", so when they treat you like you're wonderful or like
you're awful, it's really a reflection of their own internal emotional
reactions. You might actually be wonderful or awful, but it's just as
likely that you're not, and most likely it's that you're both at the
same time, like everyone else.
