You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason

"And to be one of them at the same time so totally alien. I would become like a chameleon; I'd be like them. They'd get high. I'd act high..." - Joe Edley, professional Scrabble player

"I ain't gonna wear the clothes that you like / I'm finally dandy with the me inside / One look in the mirror and I'm tickled pink / I don't give a hoot about what you think" - Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer)

you do, but it's no big deal. I really like the quotes.

Oh wow, I'm looking like some stalker!

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
((hugs))

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

definitely

Please don't leave indefinately! And if you find some secret to success in leaving, but staying...please please please let me know.