I was just serfing the net and I found this.. and it was kinda intressting. "Today I was told that the reason I was asked to leave my current company was not as simple as I thought they are. I was told that I shouldn't have treated my clients and suppliers as my friend, but should remain professionally with them. And there are couples of them complained about me. For the few people that were mentioned I thought we have been friend, cause they seem like they like me and been my friend. Some of the incidents have been twisted as well. It was told in a way not what I mean. These can categories as communication break down. And they just choose to ignore it instead of talking bout it and try to fix thing right. It really freaks me out a little, as why people would put on a mask when they deal with you. Being a Mr. / Ms. nice but when they turn around just start bitching about you. Why can't everyone just live as who they are and be truthful. Or they are just too afraid too reveal the true color of themselves, as they afraid others won't accept them? The problem is that they can't even accept themselves, how can others to accept them? Why must we always seek approval from other on how we should behave, speak, react? Why are we so afraid to be our own master? Will the world be a turbulence when everyone start living their live they way they want? Why am I thinking it would actually make the world more peaceful? Am I wrong? Am I being too innocent? Or like Yew has always said that I'm living in my own utopia? I have been thinking am I wrong to choose to be true to others? Should I like others need to put on a mask as well? I was fighting within myself on not wanting to live behind a mask. Do we really need that to live in today's world? Mark told me that I just need to know how to read people. And be able to know how much to reveal yourself to certain people. Be smart to find the group that allows you to be yourself. Everyone is different and we should accept the differences, and not expecting to behave the way you want them to be. This is exactly like how your parents want me to behave in the manner they want me to be. When all the people around you have been unkind. You have to look into that and see what's wrong, cause they are just the mirrors to yourself. The art of getting to know whom you are and learning about yourself, besides from spending time with yourself, observing your word, action, reaction… you also have to observe the reaction from people around you. Why are them treating you certain manner? Why they think that you are wrong or sick? Do I send out that signal for them to react bad to me? Or they are just too bounded with the material world till they can't accept people whom don't behave the same as them? Just like Mark said people around you is a mirror of yourself. When you don't click with certain group of people, it just reflected that we are holding different believe and we deal with things differently. So just accept the fact and move on to look for your gang. Why must I hold on so tight to it and make myself unhappy and trying harder to please them? Be smart…"
Be yourself and that group will appear around you. I decided at the end of my freshman year of college to be myself and make no apologies for who I am. At the beginning of the next semester I ended up collecting a whole new group of friends. People I can be myself around without being self-concious.