What you see is what you get!

What you see is what you get. Some people like putting on a front, act one way around one group of people and act another way around others. Living a double life.  That is one thing that really turned off a couple of my friends about church going people. They act one way in church and totally different out.  I am the same in church as I am out of church to an extent. During church and church activities, I may curtail my conversations and what I wear to be church appropriate, but I don't put on this front and try to come off as this "Goody two Shoes" in church and I'm then this wild child when I'm out with my friends.  For those of you that don't know I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also know as Mormons. I believe the church to be true on the other hand I have not been brain washed. I still think for myself and have my own ideas and beliefs. So don't judge my church by me or by any of it's members, we are all human and have our own philosophies. And we all make mistakes and that is why they invented repentance so we can make mistakes, be forgiven and change our lives. I have been in and out of the church much of my life, it's not that I have ever doubted the church it's just I get caught up in this and that and stop going.  It's like anything in life. Many of us know going to the gym and exercising is good for us, but we aren't always diligent in keeping it up.  That is how I am with church. 

Here is something really funny. Last year I took a pole dancing class and got the coolest platform heels for class. I thought nothing of them until my friend informed me they were called "_uck Me" shoes. I never thought I'd wear then to a church activity due to their wild nature. Then they announced we were having a Saturday Night Fever Dance and oh, my shoes were a perfect match for the decade.  I was styling.  My shoes finally got to see the light of day.  Still, you won't be seeing me wearing these hot shoes to church on Sunday because I just don't think they are the most appropriate church attire for this decade, but if I were living in the 70's these are the shoes I'd be wearing to church.  I don't live a double life, but I do keep somethings hidden in my closet, but don't we all.  If you ask me strait out about something I'll tell you how it is, on the other hand I'm not going to be pouring out more info the necessary.

Being an authentic person I like having friends that are also real.  I don't want friends that are afraid of sharing there opinion because it may be different then mine or afraid I will laugh at them, or just plain old not share any so called crazy ideas with me because they are afraid to be them. I want friends that will disagree with me and be able to debate with me and prove to me that they are right and I am wrong. Or we can agree to disagree, that is ok too. I want friends that live in the real world and not in this Utopia, thinking that the world is perfect and everyone is nice and honest. I want friends that I can laugh with and cry with. I want friends that I can joke around with and carry on a serious conversation with.