You

Sometimes you can try and try and try and try to make the people around you happy. You can bend over backwards breaking every bone in your body trying to do everything physically possible to make everyone around you like you. You can shove your feelings back into the corner of your brain until you forget you ever felt them. You can change your personality (or try to). You can analyze everything you say, everything you write, everything you do to the very last detail. You can change your hair and your clothes to "fit in".

But, the truth is, the more you change yourself to fit someone else, the more you lose yourself. You can shove and suck in and nip and tuck and try to put yourself into a pre-molded box, but the fact is, you're probably going to lose an arm or an ear in the process. Can you live without your arm? Sure. You can live without your ear too... but, do you want to?

You can't make people like you. You can't change their opinions of you. You can't change what they think about you. So, GET OVER IT!

Not everyone is going to be your friend. Not everyone is going to want to spend every last waking second with you. Not everyone is going to be willing to see you when you roll out of bed. Or when you're sick and laying on the couch with snot dripping from your nose. You can't help that! It's out of your control... which is probably one of the hardest sentences anyone can swallow. So, I'll say it again just for the effect:
IT'S OUT OF YOUR CONTROL! Nothing you do is in your control. God is in control. He brings people into your life and out of your life.

I don't understand why God places certain people in my life... He certainly knows I think I could live without some of them. But, He has a purpose and a plan for everyone. We're not meant to know it. That's where faith comes in. We have to trust in God's decisions. As hard as that is... especially when you have a control issue (um, yes, I'm talking about myself).

You can't change yourself to fit someone else. That's why the people that accept you for who you are, love you depsite your mistakes, and tell you when your hair looks like crap (you know, in a loving way) are so incredibly special. Because they love you for you. They love YOU. And, that's more important than the people that don't.