some questions about friendship

One definite requirement is that you know each other quite deeply. This isn't a brief process. It takes months, sometimes years, to complete. But when completed you'll be in the position of having formed a deep understanding of this friend. Any perfect friend would have to know you this well, and you them. It is also important that you two spend a lot of time together. Now maybe this doesn't happen later in knowing each other, but partly for the first reason, and partly just so that you can consider this friend slightly above your other friends, it needs to occur in the first year or two of being friends.

i recieved a chain email off my mum about friendship and it basically said that a perfect friend may not be one person, but a collection of friends e.g. one may be the one you go to for advice, one may be the one who you can watch horror films with because the others don't like them, one may be your mother, one may be your neighbour, its just about different characterics of various people put together to equal a perfect friend