Treat people with compassion. Don’t judge yourself as better than them, nor let their judgments affect you.
Judging does not help.
Accept the situation but do not be defined by it. See it and realize that it can be different. Also see that the causes are specific reasons.
It took me a while to realize why he gave me the pen. I was walking home in a dream half-forgotten where I was. Going up the street I never realized what was about to happen. As I walked, I slowly anticipated a man beside me. He seemed to move in cut up fashion, a haphazard screwy feeling was about him. He jumbled a pen from out of his jacket pocket. Short thing, overall. Kind of reminiscent of those green laser pointers. Heavy, and silverish.