Today some friends and I were playing 20 questions. One question in particular emerged and brought a lot of controversy.
Someone asked : What do you prefer, to be a popular, party girl with thousands of friends who secretly hate you; or to be a loner?

Some of them answered they had rather have fake friends. But that only comes from the fear of being alone. As human beings, we are social creatures meant to interact with each other, which is good, but sometimes, just as happens with my friends, we grow to depend on our amount of 'friends'. We grow to base our self-eestem in the amounts of parties we attend to. Which must not be. Any person with a clear conciense shouldn't be afraid of being alone.

And what is really the difference between being alone and being knowed but hated? I can see none. At least with the first, you can say, well, people don't like me because they don't know me. With the latter, you would have to admit, hey, they know me, and hate me.

Personally, I am not afraid of lonelinness. I am happy with myself. I am proud of all the decisions I've made, and who I've become. I have made mistakes. But I don't regret them, because because of them, I have come to be what I am now. They have made me wiser. Therefore, I'm not scared of spending time with myself, with analysing all my moves and with talking with myself. I do not fear the encountering with my soul.
And I have always thought that I'd rather have one real friend that means everything that 10 you can't really count with. I have rather have one ten dollar bill that is real, than ten one hundred fake bills.
And you might think that you can't compare fake friends with fake dollars, but actually, they are the same. Good to flatter yourself in public, but useless in practice.

'Mejor solo que mal acompanado'
WG