A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.
If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.