"Best Friends"

I used to have 3 people who I considered to be my best friends. Our whole circle used to refer to us as 'The 4 Corners' because we were connected so tight. Now we're down to 3 thanks to uhhh..stuff. So I have 2 people who I consider to be my best friends. I say that because I can talk to them about anything, they can talk to me about anything, we've been together for years and uhh..it's just cool =D

I try not to refer to them as my best friends around my other friends though. That just seems really mean.

no one, really. More because I see that as being a mutual thing, and don't know what light my friends see me in. It'd be pretty pompous to assume someone else thinks the world of me when I don't know that for a fact.

For someone to be my best friend the first requesite they must meet is to be a ninja.

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Originally posted by Hero
no one, really. More because I see that as being a mutual thing, and don't know what light my friends see me in. It'd be pretty pompous to assume someone else thinks the world of me when I don't know that for a fact.

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I suppose that'd be my take on it - the mutual deal and I wouldn't want to come off as pompous as well. The thing is, when you've been a loner for most of your childhood and only really made 'good good' friends in high school, you tend to have a lot of reservations about many things and especially regarding people. I have alot of "aqquaintences" (coworkers and others I've met in my daily life) whom I am used to seeing on a regular basis, but very few close friends.

Compared to high school when I was part of an extremely large large circle of friends, my situation seems kinda sparse thesedays, but I don't mind really, I get nostalgic occasionally but never depressed over that fact. Life is a lot more complicated and confusing thesedays and I think that it wouldn't help me to have a large group of friends to "hang around with" (not likely I'd have the time anyway) - just a few select friends who've been through the battlefield with me.

Being away from such a large group is somewhat good in the sense that you get to know yourself better I suppose, I mean at the end of the day when work is done, school is done or whatever has passed all you have is yourself to deal with. I suppose that I have a Henry Rollins-ish view point towards being alone or whatnot - but it helps to view the world in that light, and to become comfortable with being alone.

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Originally posted by Astral
....It took me a second to remember you had a dog...

However....im still not sure you meant......:confused:

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Mwahaha....then everything is going perfectly to plan.

All my friends are best friends, but some are bester than others.

i have about 4 best friends. some of them i don't see every day. and only 2 of them are from the same circle of friends. they're my best friends 'cause i can tell them anything. they respect my opinions even if they don't agree with them and i do the same with them. i can have fun with them and be serious with them. i used to think a best friend was just someone you had fun with all the time....but that's not the case for me. not any more at least. we give eachother space when it's needed and we know each others moods pretty well. i do have one friend out of those 4 though who understands me like no one else does. i totally get her as well. we make a point of seeing eachother at least once a week. if we can't then it's ok, but we'd still call just to check up on eachother. we have tons of fun together doin' all kinds of stuff. we also get into some pretty heated conversations. even when we argue there's still this air of respect and admiration between us. makes me feel great.

I have a small circle of friends I see pretty often and enjoy being around....however,as was said in an earlier post, for the most part I'm more of a natural loner. So basically I dont really think I have anyone I could consider a best friend.

A best friend is someone who in every situation you may encounter in life, you would not be uncomfortable having them there for.

If you can picture yourself and that person in any concievable situation (not sexual), then that is your best friend.

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Originally posted by station82o
I suppose that'd be my take on it - the mutual deal and I wouldn't want to come off as pompous as well. The thing is, when you've been a loner for most of your childhood and only really made 'good good' friends in high school, you tend to have a lot of reservations about many things and especially regarding people. I have alot of "aqquaintences" (coworkers and others I've met in my daily life) whom I am used to seeing on a regular basis, but very few close friends.

Compared to high school when I was part of an extremely large large circle of friends, my situation seems kinda sparse thesedays, but I don't mind really, I get nostalgic occasionally but never depressed over that fact. Life is a lot more complicated and confusing thesedays and I think that it wouldn't help me to have a large group of friends to "hang around with" (not likely I'd have the time anyway) - just a few select friends who've been through the battlefield with me.

Being away from such a large group is somewhat good in the sense that you get to know yourself better I suppose, I mean at the end of the day when work is done, school is done or whatever has passed all you have is yourself to deal with. I suppose that I have a Henry Rollins-ish view point towards being alone or whatnot - but it helps to view the world in that light, and to become comfortable with being alone.

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This would be my post, except I'm not very sure about that Henry Rollins thing. I've not heard of that before.