Just Be Yourself?

Okay.. So when you like a girl, I think the generic advice is to "just be yourself", but I feel like this might be one of the most difficult things to do.  We often try to impress the person we are infatuated with and often times we do things we may normally not do.  We become what we think that person may like and it may be small things, like.... being a little nicer, or joking around a little more, maybe even paying for stuff.  What if you become a different person?  When do you cross the line between being yourself and acting like someone else.  How much would you actually be willing to change in the long run to be with that person?  If you are by nature cheap, would you try to be more generous, if you don't like chinese food and that's all they ate would you try to eat it with them, if you were shy would you try to be more social?  Your personality is who you are and if you change it, then who have you become?  Most people aren't perfect for each other so then that must mean they compromised and changed a little bit.. right?  How much can you change and how long can you change for?  Your true personality has to come out at sometime or would you be happy being someone else?  Some of us are just on that hook for someone and we try so hard to be something that we're not.  All I can say is... be yourself and if that's not good enough for that person then they are obviously not for you.  Find someone who enjoys your little quirks and enjoy theirs.  Compromise is okay, acting isn't.


On a side note:

My family took me out to dinner for my birthday today.  I went with my parents, both my sisters, and my nephew.  We went to this place called Ahn Hong in Berkeley, which is a Vietnamese cuisine restaurant.  We had beef carpaccio, chicken, pork, and beef spring rolls.  My older sister gave me 50 bucks and a giant cookie for my birthday.  She baked it herself, she's a pastry chef.  She makes awesome cookies and pastries, but her specialty is wedding cakes.  This is her website and you should all get your baked goods from her.  My mom made me a personal ice cream cake and it was amazing.  We heated up the cookie and put the ice cream cake on top of it.  We ate it together as a family and it was probably one of the best desserts I've ever had.  Today was a great day...