How lonely it must be

I know WAY too many people that are only friends with ANYONE superficially. They are so afraid of being hurt, out shined, what ever to let anyone closer than arms length.

The problem that this causes for someone like me is 1) that it's hard to make real friends because no one wants to be or have a real friend, and 2) that people like that do a LOT of damage to people like me who actually care.

Aren't you lonely? Is it really so much better this way? Would you really rather be stand offish, and have people around you for superficiality?

I do NOT know how to love by halves. I either Love you or Hate you. And when you do things that push me towards hating you, I put that much more into loving you because convince yourself all you want that I'm a problem for this, but you know deep down that you wish more people cared that much!