Poll: Best friends

[Marter]

Right now, I'm only really close enough to one person to call them a "Best Friend".

I do tend to have a tight group of friends, but as of late, we haven't been that tight. No idea why.

 

[Denamic]

My dogs?
They're the only ones in the world I truly love.
I do have a semi-bromance going on, but it's kinda an arms length deal.

 

[Conkzerton]

I have a great deal of issues with best friends. They tend to suddenly dislike me after a while. My two "best friends" now are really odd... As in, we really get on but rarely contact each other away from school. That kind of friendship seems to be working out. Ish.

 

[Riobux]

I only really get acquaintances. Trust issues...

Same. Along with a general loathing of people my age.

I also have the inability to be able to talk about the same things that people my age do. Sure, I'll talk about computer games, however I'd rather talk about life and society than about how your driving exams are going and how your night was getting drunk.

 

[SimuLord]

I haven't made a lot of close friends recently because I know I'm leaving this place in two years never to return.

Thanks to Facebook, I've been reviving old friendships from high school so when I get back to Boston there will be a good pool of people to invite to my 35th birthday party about two months after I move home!

 

[cheese_wizington]

I hang out with lots of people. So a large group of friends.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

I have a diagnosed social anxiety disorder and have difficulties making friends and bonding with people. Trust issues, as someone already said. My single best friend is a similar guy. It kinda brought us together. I don't really have any other friends. Not even my parents.

 

[Rayansaki]

EDIT: ups

 

[Eekaida]

I used to have a group of four best friends...but throughout high school, they've all turned into back stabbing bitches.quote]

Haha, I know that all too well. Growing up I was shy, so realy had only one 'best friend', who was the most unpopular person you could imagine. We gathered a couple more friends, but they drifted away because they couldn't stand her. I stood by her, because that's why good friends do, but she became a total backstabbing ***** during secondary school and tried desperatey to make friends with everybody *but* me. People would come to me and beg me to ger her to leave them alone because they were sick of her hanging around them.

I finally got sick of the whole situation at that school and transferred to another one at 6th form, where I made a completely new groups of friends within weeks. While I don't keep in touch with most of them, my current 'best' friend I met there, and she's the best friend I ever had - we even went of holiday together for three weeks in Japan.

At uni I met more good friends - people like me who shared my interests, but were more diverse than my limited school experience. I think friends are important because they bring you out of yourself, so you don't become too introverted. As you get older, you should be able to judge friends better and avoid the inevitable backstabbers.

 

[Samcanuck]

I used to have a group of four best friends...but throughout high school, they've all turned into back stabbing bitches.quote]

Haha, I know that all too well. Growing up I was shy, so realy had only one 'best friend', who was the most unpopular person you could imagine. We gathered a couple more friends, but they drifted away because they couldn't stand her. I stood by her, because that's why good friends do, but she became a total backstabbing ***** during secondary school and tried desperatey to make friends with everybody *but* me. People would come to me and beg me to ger her to leave them alone because they were sick of her hanging around them.

I finally got sick of the whole situation at that school and transferred to another one at 6th form, where I made a completely new groups of friends within weeks. While I don't keep in touch with most of them, my current 'best' friend I met there, and she's the best friend I ever had - we even went of holiday together for three weeks in Japan.

At uni I met more good friends - people like me who shared my interests, but were more diverse than my limited school experience. I think friends are important because they bring you out of yourself, so you don't become too introverted. As you get older, you should be able to judge friends better and avoid the inevitable backstabbers.

Very good post, thank you.

 

[JLML]

Friends, friends.. I have one really good friend that I've never met, not sure if that counts..
If not, my best friend is probably the only one of my "friends" I don't find annoying and think of killing every now and then. Maybe because I got a certain level of respect for him.. he's pretty good at karate after all, and we usually agree on most stuff. Also, he realizes when he's wrong, and admits defeat unlike all my other friends. (one of them actually kept insisting that it was fully realistic to be able to non-scope someone with a sniper rifle while running, just like on CS. That one friend in particular is really just stupid and annoying, and thinks he's always right, even when provided with evidence he's wrong.)

Oops, seems I turned this into a big complaint about my idiotic so called friends. =P

 

[Supernatural Girl]

I have 1 great best friend and 2 best friends. I would say a best friend is someone that you are happy just to be around. You don't have to talk, but when you laugh randomly while thinking of something, they don't ask what's up with you, crazy person, they just laugh right along with you.

You also just share moments where you think of the same thing in response to a stimulus, even if the abstraction is so far gone. I did this with my bestie and is was awesome. So good, I can't even remember what we were looking at/hearing.

You just have a build-up of mostly good, but some bad, experiences that you will always remember nd be able to share openly without any kind of fear of rejection.

 

[Radeonx]

I have 3 or 4 roommates that have become "best friends" over our years together at college.
I also have a friend that I've lived next to since we were born, and we've done things together for as long as I can remember.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Spoiler: This arsehole :p

Nah, in all seriousness, he's awesome. Always been there for me, buys me stuff if I need it and we went to Scotland a few months ago, which was a laugh. The funny thing is, no one would bat an eye lid if he were a girl. Because he's a guy, people think there's something going on, it's such an immature state of mind.
I've had a few best friends before who were girls and they eventually ditched me for other people. One has a new 'bmfl' every week and keeps getting fucked over by them

 

[Ekit]

I don't have any best friend because i don't rank my friends.

 

[nick n stuff]

5 groups of mates.
people i get on with
bog standard friends
group of really good friends (including work mates)
BAND MATES(the family you choose)
clear, out-right best mate (who is also in the band)

 

[CoffeeScamp]

Currently have a smaller number, who are easy to understand. Mostly. I have a larger group of friends too, but just don't talk to them quite as much.

None really rated as "best friends" as such, just more like ones I talk to all the time, every day XD , vs ones I talk to some of the time.

 

[SturmDolch]

I have a small group of best friends that I hang out with most. But my very best friend is my girlfriend, as sappy as that sounds. I talk about things with her that I wouldn't even consider talking with my other best friends about.