What a great question, random question generator! The quick answer would be: Of course! Real friends like you the way you are, for who you are. If you don't like me the way I am, if you think I have some kind of tragic character flaw and you're trying to save me from myself and help me see the light, then are you really my friend, or am I your project? It doesn't matter if the "salvation" is rooted in religious belief or social criticism. The older I get, the more convinced I've become that any judgment of another is rooted in something that needs to be addressed in the self and not the other.

Going a little deeper: can anyone truly even know the way you are? If you know me, what you actually know is a perception of me. You know me in relationship to you. How I present myself, how much I let my guard down, what I disclose about myself to you, which one of me is actually fronting at the time, and all the assumptions and inferences made based on your own background and history, means that the me you know can't really and truly be the me as I am.

That said, your own experience of my presence and spirit, and my experience of yours, can transcend the boundaries of material and social perception. You may know that being in my presence (or conversing with me online) makes you feel a certain way, that there's a chemistry there (that doesn't have to be romantic or sexual attraction), and you may feel a deep connection and sense of comradery with me. That sense of interconnection and oneness and mutual acceptance, that to me is real friendship.

From the book Creative Mind and Success by Ernest S. Holmes:
One of the things which greatly hinders us from demonstrating a greater degree of prosperity we may call race thought or race consciousness. This is the result of all that the race has thought or believed. We are immersed in it, and those who are receptive to it are controlled by it. All thought seeks expression along the lines of least resistance. When we become negative or fearful we attract that kind of thought and condition. We must be sure of ourselves; we must be positive; we must not be aggressive, but absolutely sure and poised within. Negative people are always picking up negative conditions; they get into trouble easily: Persons who are positive draw positive things; they are always successful. Few people realize that the law of thought is the great reality; that thoughts produce things. When we come to understand this power of thought, we will carefully watch our thinking to see that no thought enters that we should not want made into a thing.

In short, it is our deep fear and expectation that the printer will break down when we need it the most, that makes it happen. Get to the root of that belief that the question presupposes.

Holmes goes on to say:
*We can guard our minds by knowing that no negative thought can enter; we can daily practice by saying that no race thought of limitation can enter the mind; that Spirit forms itself around us and protects us from all fear and from all limitation. Let us clothe ourselves in the great realization that all power is ours and that nothing else can enter; let us fill the atmosphere of our homes, and places of business with streams of positive thought. Other people will feel this and will like to be near us and enter into the things that we enter into. In this way we shall be continually drawing only the best. *