Understanding the Human experience

Sometimes I feel like human beings are like novels, written in real time. The way we perceive each other is the movie adaptation to that novel. Some things are portrayed as seen in the original novel, with a few additions and subtractions based on our own personal understanding/misunderstandings. There are so many variables that can alter "the critique"; love, fear,ignorance, jealously, intelligence, greed. We live in a world so dependent on what others think. Yet, what others think will never be an accurate depiction of who we are and what we are capable of. So why give it so much precedence?