Friends...

@flares (15)
Canada
January 3, 2007 4:47pm CST
What are friends really? Are they just people you hang out with? Enjoy and spend time with? I'm not really sure myself. I don't know what to consider a friend, as there are many friends of mine that I used to talk to, but now I never do anymore. We have completely lost contact, and I don't know what to think about it. Are we still friends? I also have some very close friends, and some very distant friends, what can actually be counted as a friend? Thanks for the opinions guys, and I'm new here. Hoping to make some friends here, as well as learn more about what others consider as friends.
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@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
3 Jan 07
i don't consider all the people i talk to and meet in life as friends. i just call some "people i know". the friends i consider are those who are there for me through thick and thin. who treats me as a person and do not just remember me when they need me. friends are someone who will not just understand you but will help you understand aobut what life really is all about. they are those who will try and make you laugh and also will make you cry sometimes. friends are people you can share your secrets with. they are people you know you can trust.
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@flares (15)
• Canada
4 Jan 07
Yeah, I don't consider everyone I talk to a friend, but there are just so many different types to me. Some of my friends get along because we share similar interest, others because of a type of hate-laugh-joke relationship. There are some friends who are more distant, that I feel I can share more secrets with, whereas I have some friends who I've known forever, and are very close, yet I won't share some secrets with. Some friends I can joke with very easily, whereas others (closer ones), I don't think I can.
@puma_nz (999)
• New Zealand
3 Jan 07
Welcome to mylot flares :) To add to your discussion, I think friends are important.. I have those friends that you mentioned. The distant ones but I still consider them friends and then there are those that make me wonder WHY I even considered them friends at all.. I love my friends, They are wonderful people and they know Im stupid and Silly.. Friends are people you can trust on your hardest moments.. Friends are those you can laugh with.. Friends will bail you out of Jail and tell you what you did was wrong.. A TRUE friend will be sitting next to you saying "DAYAM! We stuffed up!!" lol
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@amministra (1040)
• Italy
4 Jan 07
is all
@aelyus (634)
• Romania
4 Jan 07
i don't know what really friends are. i had more "friends" who left me alone when i needed them most, so i don't have much trust in people...
@vglusker (24)
• United States
4 Jan 07
I know that it is definitly hard to find true friends. I am at a point in my life where i have no true girlfriends. I have spent my teenage years with a group of girls, but somehow when i got engaged and they were still single we drifted apart. I would say that my husband is my only true friend right now.
@atheea (14)
• Romania
4 Jan 07
a friend in need is a friend in deed. actually, i think that friends are not only persons we know. friends are persons we like spending time with and who like spending time with us, persons who help us and who are there for us when we need it, who can listen to our problems and give us an honest advice, persons who enjoy our company just as much as we enjoy their's.
• United States
4 Jan 07
I agree one hundred percent and I couldnt have said it better myself!!!I can tell you are a very loyal friend yourself,keep up the good work
@mchu519 (465)
• United States
4 Jan 07
Your thinking too much what a friend is. Here is some definition from http://www.dictionary.com 1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. 2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter 3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile Its just a person someone to be with so you won't feel lonely or someone that occassionally talks to you and helps you out. Theres nothing too much to think about.
@smbilalshah (1316)
• Pakistan
4 Jan 07
a friend in need is a friend in deed my friend
• India
4 Jan 07
friend is- 1.one who is there whenever you need him. 2share anything with him 3.one whom you can trust and never ditches you 4.let it be distant close or lost-contact friends friendship is everywhere.its better than love and one whom you can trust upon in every sphere of life.a shoulder to cry on after you havebeen ditched.dont think so much and enjoy friendship.it matters
• Philippines
4 Jan 07
sort of
@34momma (13882)
• United States
4 Jan 07
friends are more then just someone to hang with or talk to. they are and extended part of your family. a good good girl friend is just another part of you. i know my best friend and are have over the years become more and more alike. i real friend is someone you can count on when you need them. they know when to talk and when to be silent. when to help and when to back off. they are not easy to come by real friends. but i tell you once you get one, hold on tight and don't let go. you have all the makings of a gem
• Romania
4 Jan 07
First of all, a friend should be like a wall. When you are surrounded by problems, you should be able to lean on him, to be certain that this friend will be there for you, and that won't stay indifferent at your troubles. A friend is also that person that you feel good with and that can make you feel a difference in a sorrow day. This kind of friends are the real friends
@eirejane (18)
• Ireland
4 Jan 07
I have just one true friend and it's enaugh for me. Then i have my boyfriend who is my other friend, bit different type of friendship ofcourse. All these other people around me with whom I work with or socialising, they are just people in my life, important, but I would never share my pain or sorrows or troubles with them.
@tocika (970)
• Romania
4 Jan 07
Friends are all for me,I could said that my friends are a part of mine,and me am like my friends. Friends means a men who feels when you have problemes,and is behind you when you feel good and when you feel bad too.That is very important.My enemy are my angry friends,I dont like to know that someone is angry of me.When I have a problem with any friends of mine,i like to talk ,to be honest one of each other.
@shellyrios (1212)
• United States
4 Jan 07
Friends are people who stay in touch with you even if you have busy lives......I have friends who call all the time and then sometimes I don't hear from them for awhile, but they still call. It just depends on their lifestyles. Most of my friends have kids and a family so it makes it hard to get together, but when we do, we have girl night outs when it's convenient for everyone's schedule.....
@Chiriac (286)
• Romania
4 Jan 07
These i think are all misnomers,there is nothing called a best friend, only friends should be ther in our lives... we dont need best friends...I always believed having best frinds but all relationships turned into disasters..only to prove to me that one shud never emotionally rely on that one best friend...instead have a couple of close pals who understand you..share the good and the bad times with you...these u can call close friends. somehow in a best friend thing proximity becomes too much to handle an at some pointa time u realize that the two of you get too much entangled into each other, and if you talk about a FRIEND. A friend is a true reflection of yourself...coz a reflection never lies to you. Friend is someone is "is there for you,always uncoditional. KNOWS YOU as much he knows his own self...who scorns you when u go wrong and encourages to bring out the best in you... who ltets you be yourself and helps you blossom into a great person!
• India
4 Jan 07
Friends these are not just time passers these are passers who sit near you and comment you about your life which is very healpful to your life to shape these say the truth in you wheather it is negative or positie .then thies friend is not the one who betrays you.
• India
4 Jan 07
today i m free so i would like to discuss alot abot ur topic so here it is--- When the "friends" weren't at home or at work, they could be found hanging out at Central Perk, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse manned by Gunther (played by real-life "coffee guy" James Michael Tyler, who did not receive screen credit until well into the series' run), where Phoebe occasionally performed as a folksinger. Gradually and inevitably, many of friends became lovers. First it was Ross and Rachel, a relationship that came to a screeching halt in season three when Ross slept with another woman when the couple was "on a break." Ross then ended up marrying the prickly Emily Waltham (Helen Baxendale) during a jaunt to England in season four. That this alliance was doomed from the start was demonstrated when, during the ceremony, Ross said Rachel's name instead of Emily's. After the dissolution of the marriage, a drunken Ross and Rachel impulsively got hitched in Las Vegas at the end of season five, but they soon realized that they'd acted too hastily, and were themselves divorced. In season eight, Rachel gave birth to Ross' baby, a girl named Emma. Meanwhile, Chandler and Monica, who after "getting it on" at Ross' wedding ceremony tried to keep their relationship a secret from everyone, were married at the close of season seven. They would later discover that they could not have children, whereupon they adopted a baby from a woman named Erica (Anna Faris). In a similar vein, the whimsical Phoebe had earlier agreed to be artificially inseminated so that she could bear a child for her half-brother, Frank (Giovanni Ribisi), and his wife (and former teacher), Alice (Debra Jo Rupp). Ultimately, Phoebe gave birth to triplets. Phoebe also had another sibling, a twin sister named Ursula -- actually the same character played by Lisa Kudrow in the earlier NBC sitcom Mad About You, which was still in production when Friends debuted on September 22, 1994. The series' tenth and final season (2003-2004) wrapped up several loose plot strands. Having admitted that he always loved Rachel, Joey proposed to her, but the marriage never came off -- and in an eleventh-hour decision, Rachel forsook plans to move to Paris, and returned to Ross. After several desultory relationships, Phoebe married a nice guy named Mike (Paul Rudd). And as Friends approached its two-part finale, Erica, the birth mother of Monica and Chandler's soon-to-be-adopted baby went into labor -- and surprisingly delivered twins, which they named Erica (after the "real" mom) and Jack (after Chandler's dad). After the storyline of the series ended, Joey would end up moving out of New York, heading to L.A. to pursue a film career, thereby setting up the premise of Matt LeBlanc's spin-off sitcom Joey. At or near the number one ratings slot throughout most of its run, Friends also earned a veritable warehouse of Emmy Awards -- not to mention full-fledged stardom for all of the series' regulars
@camille101 (1025)
• United Arab Emirates
4 Jan 07
a friend is someone who accepts you as you are. who will never hesitate to correct you when you're wrong. who will support you when you're right. who understands your pains and helps you when you need help without asking them to.
@phreak (23)
4 Jan 07
I believe that a friend is someone you feel close to. You can spend a lot of time with someone and them not be your friend it depends how much you talk and how close you feel to them. Well thats what I think anyway.