We want to be known, but only in the ways we approve of.

That version of us, the one we never intended to be, exists just as much as the version we see in ourselves. Perception is not a reflection of reality but a creation of it.

And so we adjust. We refine, we recalibrate, we contort ourselves to fit into the frame others have constructed for us

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." — Anaïs Nin