Tinted Glass

I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever had something happen, that affected everything you said and did. To make a mistake, that no matter what you did after, everything was then tainted in the eyes of someone else? It seems as though the past was rewritten and every nice thing you ever said and did no longer mattered. Everything you do now and then is seen through like a piece of tinted glass. No matter how hard you try to get them to see the real you, it's in vein, they've made up their minds. Perhaps only time can lift such a veil.