I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'd rather be true to my principled than 'liked'... If people like me *with my principles*, that's ideal (as I enjoy being liked) but if they only like me because I'm willing to compromise my principles to avoid being "difficult" then being liked seems a pyrrhic victory...
Sometimes I have to accept that the satisfaction (sometimes grim) of 'doing the right thing' is the only gratification I'll get.
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@lightweight i'm not satisfied if i can't pull them out of it. And for many i have to give up and move on. If they have no real ties to me and can't adapt to the progressive way forward, then they're just temporary proximity friends who will lose contact with distance.
@resist1984 I can relate.