I think i understand where you are coming from...

Intrinsically people don't change at their core they can try to behave in a different manner they can also try to be someone they are not, but the truth is it can make you a very unhappy person.

My own experience was I tried to change who I was when I came here, knowing full well the person that I am would never be allowed to fit in here, actually the truth is the person who I really am would have been jailed and deported a long time ago. I have let it go far to long that I don't even recognize ME, anymore and in truth it really has lead me to do a something that while under my normal circumstances would not have effected me or those that I love, but because it is here, my actions to say the least were stupid and I have hurt people I care about. i can not take that back I cannot tell those involved how sorry I am enough, but the underlying truth is that even though I thought I could change, I am who I am and I always will be. If you fell any less about me for that, than that is your prerogative, if don't want to be my friend then fine, but understand this I do not write this to seek you approval or forgiveness only to appease my own conciseness and nothing more and so I can become the person I was before.........

"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.