How does your relationship with your best friend work?

[The Funslinger]

Simple, why is your best friend your best friend? What are the key points of your friendship?

I'd have to say with my best friend, it's mainly because we grew up together. We've known each other since we were babies. We have had a lot of fallings out, but the fact that we're kind of cemented together via a history always pushes us back together.

We've ended up being quite similar, we've developed a very similar, if odd sense of humor. (e.g. we once simultaneously "shazammed" someone) We like all the same things (star wars, doctor who, etc.) we're both frequent gamers. We do tend to like different elements and characters, though. For example, this is useful when playing the Left 4 Dead games together, I like Bill and Nick, he likes Louis and Ellis. We both hate chavs and a lot of modern music. We both put the most stock in the single player and story of a game rather than the multiplayer. As such, we both like Half Life and Portal quite a lot.

We do fuck around quite a lot, though. For instance, on a drunken camping trip with several others, I attacked him and threatened him by putting an improvised wooden shiv to his throat. (all in good fun, of course)

 

[Flamezdudes]

I just met him secondary school and he's part of my main group of friends, there's 4 of us all together if you're wondering. He's just hilarious and we all have the same sense of humour and tastes in things and he's a great person to talk to when i'm having problems.

 

[Lilani]

I don't have a "best" friend. I have friends, and some I get along with better than others, but I do not have one I would put above the rest. And nor do I have the desire to ever do that.

 

[hensethe1]

I read a quote a while back that I thought about and I have one friend, who fits it - which is why I refer to him as my best.

"Best friends can go days, months, years without talking but when they see each other it's like they spoke yesterday"

Goes something like that

 

[StormShaun]

Well me and my best friend, well we both meet each other in Year 8 and we started to talk because he had a halo novel with him and I asked whats it all about, he says its a game and I didnt know, then we both became best friends due to gaming and learned our other intrests (Movies and tv, etc), and today we stand by each other (In Yr 12 now, 4 yrs of bring great friend) through anything, him and myself think of each other as brothers (not related, duh), he makes jokes and is a pervert and im the some-what serious, love to tease, secret pervert...we have great times together and bad, but in the end we have stayed best friends, but hopefully some day we shall get an apartment and play games (Pc, xbox, ps3) together since I have a crap computer/internet and he does not have xbox live, so we both want to own together in every game.

We will proberly be best mates forever, I dunno but I got that feeling.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Well.. Apart from my family and what I 'consider' family. I got one guy I talk to (Dont really know if friend is the right term). And that usually consists of just walking and talking. Or just talking.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

I met my best friend in my Maths class when I was about... twelve or thirteen, and he told me, off hand that he was picking up his new DS after school. I turned and introduced myself at that very moment.

We like similar things. We're both massive Marvel comics fans (Deadpool and Spiderman) both big Nintendo and Microsoft gamers, and we both fight crime in our spar- Uh we both like similar music, that's what I meant.

It's a shame actually because he's a great guy, but ever since we left to go to uni, we don't speak as much anymore. What's worse, is that his university is literally half an hour away from mine, AND his girlfriend lives in Canterbury so he's here almost every weekend. I guess we probably should put a bit more effort =D

 

[Super Six One]

I have never had a best friend. I have people i am friends with but i am always like the third wheel, gotten used to it tho and now i work better on my own for the most part.

 

[Gaderael]

I went and married her. It's great 'cause I'm an out and out geek, and she's a closet geek.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I don't have a best friend, I have several very close ones. We've known each other for years, so knowing one a bit longer than the others doesn't really qualify that person to be a best friend.

I've known them since Secondary School, some I've known since I was five. We all share the same interests (gaming, anime) and we've never had any issues we couldn't sort out.

We're also all in walking distance of each other (the furthest being about 40 mins).

 

[Jumplion]

Well, I've known my best friend since before I can remember in preschool, and we're now nearing the start of college years and we're still close friends. I've always lived in close walking distance to his house, and our families have known each other for years, so we're practically brothers I'd like to think. He's pretty much my foil, the Jaime Hyneman to my Adam Savage; he's generally cool and collected and I'm loud and obnoxious. We have the same interests, we talk about a bunch of stuff, and we've pretty much just gotten used to each other. Couldn't really ask for anything more.

 

[EcstaticObsessive]

I read a quote a while back that I thought about and I have one friend, who fits it - which is why I refer to him as my best.

"Best friends can go days, months, years without talking but when they see each other it's like they spoke yesterday"

Goes something like that

Awfully true, because me and my 'best friend' have gone without talking to each other for months, yet when we do finally meet up, it's as if we were chatting on the phone five minutes ago.

I met my best friend through my father, as my dad and his dad worked together and became good mates and eventually the kids were introduced to each other. We spent our first six years in school together, then he went to some fancy private school and I ended up in the small public school no ones heard of.

We both have the same quirky sense of humor, and there have been so many occasions where we have both made each other laugh so hard we fall over and have to spend five minutes gasping for air to recover. We share a nerdy love of gaming and dicking around on the internet and books.

We 'get' each other, I suppose. We never misinterpret something the other has said. We never have awkward silences, just those 'comfy' silences. We can guess what the other is going to say before they say it. Known each other for a lifetime, so it's almost as if our lives are connected.

 

[Pat8u]

I have two best friends but ones in canberra for 3 years so I havent seen him in a while but my other one is the opposite to me except for the fact that we are gamers and both aspiring to be game designers also don't think that games are the only things that make us friends sure they make us best friends but the reason we were friends is because he approached me first when I had no friends in kindergarten and hes been my frend ever since also every year we go to free comic book day and supanova together

 

[Aedrial]

We're dating. We're one of those couples that are annoying to be around sometimes with the whole telepathy thing going on.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

My best mate.

We've known eachother 10 years.
I've thrown up on him.
Shoved my fingers down his throat to make him puke after too much booze.
Kicked eachother
Hit each other with pool Qs.
Wound each other up.
Called each other the most horrible things we can think of.
I've been there to drag him out of some horrific situations & help the clean up / recovery afterwards.

This is us being good mates. There is no malice in what we do. This is simply how we are because we have known each other for so long.

We've given each other musical instruments, cash, bikes...whatever & expect nothing in return because the way we see it, there is no such things as favors between true mates. You just help them out if they ask or you think you can. The awesome thing about this is you know they would do the same for you.

I trust this guy with my card & pin number & if I asked him to get me some money out of a cash machine for me (or if I was lending him cash), I know he would only take out what had been agreed & I would never need to check.

Trust is what forges a friendship for me. If you can't trust someone they are not a real friend. Just an acquentance.

My best mate... one HORRIBLE bastard!

 

[Le_Lisra]

"Very well" about sums it up. It's a girl.

Men and women can be friends. Never forget.

 

[Wolf-AUS]

Like that guy said earlier about the don't speak for ages and when we do it's like we spoke the day before, me and my mate have that thing going on, good solid stuff.

It's a shame actually because he's a great guy, but ever since we left to go to uni, we don't speak as much anymore. What's worse, is that his university is literally half an hour away from mine, AND his girlfriend lives in Canterbury so he's here almost every weekend. I guess we probably should put a bit more effort =D

Seriously, half an hour? My best mate lives 2,100km away from me, it's a 24 hour drive.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Don't have one at the moment. Taking applications if anyone's interested.

The closest thing would probably be my roommate. We're exes, but we might as well be twins separated at birth (and by a year).