Other people's reactions and opinions are simply other people's reactions and opinions. You only take them personally when you agree with their poison. Become aware of the emotional wound they have exposed for you, be grateful for their help, and take responsibility for your healing of your wound. To imagine that you know what someone else is thinking is an assumption. To imagine that you can know or control the future or another person's actions is an assumption.
Expectations are assumptions.
In making assumptions, we create our reality without respect for another's truth or experience. To avoid assumptions, ask questions. It takes courage to trust the present moment, to allow other people to be exactly who they are, and to let life unfold according to its own plan . . . Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being.