Failed

As the year ends, so does my effort, an experiment rather. I had set out with these vague objective's': dreaming of self-discovery and aiming to expand my knowledge about others as I hoped to expand my social circle. The result: a glorious failure.....I don't understand why and how I fail myself, when the failure is supposed to fail itself ! The seeds of self-doubt have grown and the fog continues to settle its cold presence all around me. At the crux of it all was a question, "what does it take to make good friends?" Well the answer definitely isn't Orkut lol, it definitely isn't in being genuine either. I am somehow becoming a firm believer of the phrase, "good guys finish last", either I end up meeting the wrong people or something is really wrong with me. No matter how genuine, caring and polite I try to be, I fail to retain friends, all I am left with are shallow cocoons of so called "friends". And my experiments of using different approaches on the internet doesn't seem to work either: so that definitely shows what the problem really is....I wish there was an eraser or the way Calvin puts it " I wish my life had a rewind and play button", but then how many times would you hit the rewind button ? People, as it appears, don't need the good person types, I don't think they want the straight forward types too. I am too optimistic to say that manupulation and toeing the line are the right ways to get em. Maybe the answer lies somewhere in the moderation, that's something I can't perfect. How can one demean one-self? How can one step down the ladder called life? No, that's not my cup of tea, I believe I can only use the delete button for now, but that can't happen for ever, the buck has to end with someone, perhaps somewhere down the line, perhaps in the new year....but for now the experiment is done with, for there is no one who's going to read this, it ends where it began....at an epoch that has no ending....at a question that has no answer: who am I ?