making assumptions

an example:

You are walking in the mall, and you see a person you like.
That person turns to you and smiles, and then walks away.
You can make a lot of assumptions just because of this one experience.
With these assumptions you can create a whole fantasy.
And you really want to believe this fantasy and make it real.
A whole dream begins to form just from your assumptions,
and you can believe, "Oh, this person really likes me."
In your mind a whole relationship begins from that.
Maybe you even get married in this fantasyland.
But the fantasy is in your mind, in your personal dream.

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The above is what i wanna share.. We only see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. We dont perceive things the way they are. We have the habit of dreaming with no basis in reality. We literally dream things up in our imaginations.
Because we dont understand something, we make an assumption about the meaning, and when the truth comes out, the bubble of our dream pops and we find out it was not what we thought it was at all.

That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.