Your experience tells you two things. One, that the people you want to impress are unimpressed by your effort to impress them. Two, for the people you want to

Your experience tells you two things. One, that the people you want to impress are unimpressed by your effort to impress them. Two, for the people you want to impress to accept you you have to hide truths of who you are as a person because they would rather discriminate against you for superficial reasons than get to know you. And from that, you conclude that the people you left behind are to blame more so than these people you want to impress?