If you really knew me, would you still be my friend?

[paranoid android]

I would rather be liked for the person I AM rather than a person I am not.
If someone can't accept you for who you are then they aren't really worth your energy imo.
Being friends with ppl who don't really know you, isn't a real friendship.

This expresses my thoughts on the matter perfectly

If you don't like me for who i am im not going to pretend to be someone else. If you like the person i am then thats fine but if you hate the person i am chances are your going to be told to fuck off.

I make it a point to be open (sometimes blatantly open) about myself.

What's the point of lying? True friends will accept the real me. The rest can fuck off.

We seem to have much the same attitude when it comes to dealing with people :D

 

[rangrz]

judging from your user name you ride a sport/touring bike, so yes, I would.

 

[Whipped Dream]

Well, I am the real me, and I act like it, which is why I don't really have any friends. I was just diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, so now I have some idea as to WHY no one really likes me/I have no long term friends/can't manage to get into a relationship/ETC.

Honestly, I wish I was living a lie at this point. It would be awful, but people would want to be around me at least. *sigh*

Wow were twins. I can honestly say that I have ZERO friends right now. Which is a very different place than what I'm used to.

I grew up with a small core of very close friends. I thought we'd be friends 4ever. We had been through death-defying experiences together.

Just a few years ago I they all told me they didn't want me in their lives anymore. A few even told me I was a "bad influence." For fuck sakes we're both in our 30's...it isn't like we're children. As it turned out, he had found Jesus, and Jesus and I couldn't both co-exist in his life.

Needless to say I have become extremely cynical and hardened when it comes to religion - and friends. I thought close friends could last a lifetime...apparently not.

I have mixed feelings about it now. On the one hand I kinda like solitude - I only have to live my life for me now. But on the other......I'm lonely.