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Augi: Yes, I am beginning to feel some anxiety because I don't want to continue to make these mistakes. I'm having trouble "reading" people if you know what I mean--my instinct or gut feeling of who or what or how a person may be. I think it may be something we all do to some degree when meeting a new person, and that we learned at a very early age through experience or influence. These instincts are hard to ignore, and can be a kind of prejudice no matter how benign.
Since I have been broadening my horizons lately, I am meeting many new people and experiencing new things. Since the world experience I bring to the table is limited I am working with limited instincts, and when I learn more or later stop to think about them, my instincts were sometimes glaringly wrong whether the assumption was complimentary or not. And therein lies the problem I think--assumption. Not judgement (analytical), but assumption (instinct).
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