Getting Not Getting It

You can, and will, misunderstand and misinterpret anything and everything. They key is to be conscious and aware that there is room for error, and nothing is just the way it looks or seems. The key is not to understand and work out these things, this everything, you will drive yourself mad, when it is something like someone else's thoughts, especially if it is something like someone else's feelings. That isn't to say don't try, always try, but the goal is not to succeed, the goal is in the trying.