How does your relationship with your best friend work?

[CommanderKirov]

He punched my lights out and than bought me a drink.

One could not find a better friend.

 

[Warlord211]

I met him in 6th grade when I first started going to that school. He was my first friend I made there and we've been inseparable since. We tend to like the same stuff, such as music and video games. We both love Star Wars. He is a Sony fanboy but I tend to dabble in everything. It just works for us. I do have other friends but he is my best friend.

 

[Goofguy]

I have two friends I consider to be the best of them all (and by 'them all', I mean the dozen or so people I consider to be good friends). They both have different qualities and tastes that appeal to me. One of them is the nerdy yet sophisticated guy; he's the one that I talk video games with but also shares my interest in cigars, pipe tobacco, rich foods and fine alcohol. The other is the simple yet reliable drinking partner; he's the one that I can talk to about whatever problems I'm having and is always ready to go drink for drink with some dollar beer.

I met them both almost 8 years ago in college and we've been close friends ever since.

 

[Berethond]

He's an obsessive-compulsive socially awkward Communist.

I am a misanthropic messy Libertarian.

We decided we were friends when we lost our voices yelling at each other about economics.

 

[AugustFall]

Known him since I was five. I dunno just someone I am 100% comfortable with. I can say anything and know it won't affect our friendship. It's nice .

We're both massive nerds of course. But we both also picked up guitar around the same time and we've been in 2 gigging bands together. There is a big overlap in games we like and we both love Magic: TG. I moved to a different country for 10 years and we stayed friends through e-mail and visits and now I'm back it's like I never left.

This is a nice thread.

 

[0p3rati0n]

My best friend is basically the brother I never got. It's not a perfect relationship. We disagree a lot, but we can also relate a lot.

 

[Akimbo_Slice]

I met mine in High School, and basically we both started smoking weed together, and have been ever since. Seems to be working fine so far. We have the same interests, and alot in common. We hangout, smoke, and talk about all kinds of stuff, mostly video games and music. We differ in our opinions about those two things, so we argue alot, but I enjoy arguing Its like im on a debate team. He enjoys rap, and I enjoy New Wave, and cant stand rap. And we differ in vidoe games. Rpg's for him and shooters for me.

 

[Rathands]

.........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.

I always wondered what that term was called - I have that with my twin. We used to spend most days walking home in silence from school; all the stupid kids at my school thought this was weird (we did speak as soon as we got back) but I guess if they were quiet with each other for longer than ten seconds they might have found out that they didn't actually like each other.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Video games were what we had in common. They bought us together, and since we were classmates and lived pretty close to eachother it was easy to deepen the bond. Then we got the internet and started playing games together, and we were pretty good as a team, both of us going for the gold and being ambitious.

Now we play games together and sometimes hang out at eachother's house watching movies and stuff. We've grown to have different tastes in music and games, but we're still competitive and the bond persists.

Sucks that he's male. A female version would kick so much ass.

This sounds exactly like me and one of my best friends. We bonded over gaming, movies, and music. She still relies on me for most of her new music and video games (as I am much more of a "gamer" than she is nowadays) and she's the movie buff of the two of us. We have different taste sometimes, but we've been friends since 6th grade (...oh, good lord, that's almost 10 years we've been friends).

The other one of my best friends now lives several states away from me. But she'll come and visit every so often, and we'll be talking like she never left.

 

[Neo10101]

We grew up together and have a lot of the same interests, gaming, music, videos, comedy, etc. We have a lot of the same friends, and we almost always have an awesome time when we hang out together, even if crazy ridiculous things happen, plus him and I are very indecisive, so if I really want to do something he will usually do it having no other good decision, and vice versa.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

We're the founders of our band and are close because of that. Also most of the time our band practices we sleep in the same bed.

So yeah. You just get close from shit like that.

 

[Hiikuro]

My closest friend is a friend I can talk to about more or less anything. The only reason I can think of that the friendship works is that he has grown somewhat emotionally attached to me, as far as I know. For I never actively take contact with him or ask him out to do stuff (as it is with anyone I know, due to some absolutely horrible psychological issues I have), and I don't really feel the friendship (essentially he feels like 'someone I talk to frequently' to me). Both of those are flaws I have that he is aware of.

He is very different to me in terms of core personality. While I am an open-minded introvert, without any sort of worthwhile social life at all, he is fairly traditional and seem to enjoy a variety of social activities even though he struggles with his social skills (he frequently asks me about social structures and norms). Our interests don't really overlap much either, though despite that we often have a lot to talk about.

If I lost him as a friend, I think I'd only feel more lonely than I do now.

 

[aei_haruko]

Ah yes, my best friend nate, He's a wonderful guy. (although lazy as hell) We pretty much just wander on in and say " ya want to hang out today?" and then we hang out ( living 3 houses away is VERY nice) We also are addicted to age of mythology, trust me, Egypt (me) +atlantis(him)= totally pwonage. It's very fun, also very personal. Like I'm not a guy who thinks giving a hug is sexual, heck, I hug my best friend. And It's awesome to have gotton to know him

 

[Ham_authority95]

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)

I don't have a "best friend" but if I did, it would be because we hang out and talk the most.

 

[teqrevisited]

I've known my best mate and his brother since early primary school, since we were both looked after by the same guy before school because of our parents' work schedules. We'd always play Streets of Rage and Golden Axe 2 player and in the summer the guy looking after us would organise these long biking trips all over the place.

When we went up to secondary school we sort of went our separate ways since he was always more into sports and I've always favoured video games. So for a few years we both had our separate groups of friends and were on opposite halves of the yeargroup aswell. Going into sixth form we ended up together again in I.T (and started confusing people with hilariously crude, out of context injokes) and between classes we always went home to drink and play games.

It's odd now that I've written it out, but it looks as if gaming is what kept on bringing us back together.

 

[CrashBang]

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.

Ditto. I've just finished uni and my 'best friend at uni' would have been my flatmate (he also has an Escapist profile but never uses it) but then I have several other friends whom I'm just as close to, one of which is like my little sister, then there are others who I met more recently but I'm just as close to
My best man at my wedding will probably my oldest mate from home, even though we don't see each other that often, we've always remained in contact. Then I have two other mates from home whom, again, I'm very close to. It's sooo hard to choose a best friend so I just have lots of close friends, some closer than others

 

[Thundero13]

I don't exactly see my self with 'best' friends anymore, I used to have a best friend in primary school but then I moved away and only see her a couple of times a year, we chat on facebook but it's not the same. Also when I moved to secondary school I thought I had a best friend but he changed or something and after I told him I was gay our friendship declined somehow. I do have very good friends but they're all just filling in different aspects of my life, some I talk to about problems a lot but hardly see in real life, some I see on a day-to-day basis and we talk a lot, one that we just talk about stuff that I wouldn't really feel comfortable talking about if it was someone I knew better, one that's the onlyother gay male teen I know and we talk about boys sometimes, but there isn't anyone that fills in all the gaps, there just couldn't be, besides I couldn't go through the longing of losing a bst friend again.