Do you have a best friend ?

Canada
September 8, 2008 2:32pm CST
Do you have a best friend if not why is this ? How long have you known this person ? What makes this person your best friend and not just a normal friend ? Do you believe you will always be best friends ? I have known my best friend for 11 years now . She has proven herself to me by never repeating anything I have told her . She has been there for me each and every time I needed her . She makes the time to be there when things are bad as well as when they are good . It took us many years to consider each other best friends , to know each other well enough to trust one another . I cannot imagine a time in my life that she will not be my best friend . We have many of the same interest , and my younger children and her children are the same ages . She moved away two and a half years ago and even though we rarely get to see each other we have still kept the closeness we had when she lived in our area . So do you have a best friend and what makes them your best friend ?
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@pickles12 (308)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
My best friend is my best friend because I know that she will be there when I need her. Even though she lives a couple hours away we're still as close as we were when she lived in town. I know I can trust her and will never doubt that. My best friend and I have known each other for 8 years now but have only been friends for 6. At the time that we first met the only thing we had in common was a mutual friend and we didn't like each other at all. One crazy day she missed the bus at school and i offered for her to come over to my house for a little while until she got a ride home. she agreed and something that day changed the whole way we actde around each other. Soon after that we we're very close friends and hung out all the time. It was a very good day and I would relive that day over and over because she is such a good friend and I would like to remember how it happend
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• Canada
8 Sep 08
And I would not trade her for all the money in the world :)
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• Canada
8 Sep 08
I know how you mean , you just know after an extended period of years when someone never repeats a story or is always there for you that they really are a good friend , one good enough to call a best friend :) Thank you for your response .
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@austere (2812)
• Philippines
9 Sep 08
yes i have.. and she has a kid now.. she made me god mother of her baby..hehe well we have been buddies since childhood and i can really open it up with her..she is very sweet and soft spoekn.. and i am the noisy vocal one..hehe but we really enjoy each others company and try as much as possible to be open and honest with each other.. i am happy about her..she is married and a newly born son.. she also made me her maid of honor during her wedding.. i so love her!
• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
@austere (2812)
• Philippines
10 Sep 08
no problem.. i enjoy responding to your discussion! happy mylotting and see you around!
@bugbaby (1787)
• Indonesia
9 Sep 08
yes, i have 2 best friend in my life, first my wife and my wife's friend, my wife is my best friend to share everything, and my wife's friend to share about something fun.
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
• India
9 Sep 08
Yes i have best friend. He was studying with from my first year when i goto school age and he was one of my best friend at present also. we will meet daily and chitchat sometimes and we will go to home. In Sunday we will go to movies and enjoy a lot.
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
@rbailey83 (1428)
• Canada
9 Sep 08
i have a best friend, someone i met when i was about 7 or 8, i had just moved to colorado. He has always been there for me, and i for him. We have never gotten into a fight, we respect eachother well enough to just debate things and if it starts to get heated one of us always changes the subjects. No matter how long of a period of time passes that we don't see or talk to eachother, when we do it is just like we saw eachother the other day.
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Since you were 7 or 8 that is a really long time :) Thank you for your response .
@divinchris (2449)
• India
9 Sep 08
I do have have a best friend.I know him for like 28 years.He is a very nice person,but these we are not that close to each other as he is far from me and he is busy with his works.I miss him a lot.Hope we will be be close in the coming days.God Bless all.Happy mylotting
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
• India
9 Sep 08
Sorry that was 18 years.
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@luckycat (220)
• Bolivia
9 Sep 08
I don't know.I was so pround when people asked me whether i had a best friend,because i could always told them :"yes!We have met each other for about 10 years."But now i am not sure,Best friend?how do you guys define a "best friend".I relly don't know,maybe we it's just because we knew each others so many years,so we are best friends.We rarely keep in touch now.Maybe we had different life now.
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• Philippines
9 Sep 08
hmm.. best friend?.. i don't exactly call my friends best friends.. just close friends.. I don't know.. Even though we are that close (like sleeping in their houses) but I don't know how to define a best friend... I can laugh with them, i can cry with them and i have known them for 7 years and more.. but still, i am half-hesitant.. i usually keep my personal matters inside me, i even keep it with my family.. maybe, my best friend is myself.. lol..
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
9 Sep 08
i consider my hubby, my bestfriend too... i can tell him anything with no hesitations... he's always been my confidante and he never fails to make me smile when i feel sad or depressed...
• Canada
10 Sep 08
That is so sweet :) Thank you for your response .
@my2boys (821)
• United States
9 Sep 08
I have a best friend. We have been friends for about 15 years. I guess that we are friends because we have known each other so long and we have a lot of things in common.
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
• Canada
9 Sep 08
I have friends but no best friends . I like to hang out but i don't tell them anything personal because i don't want them to talk about me and friends do taht if they know to much about you . Maybe some day I will have a best friend but righ now i don't have one just lots of good friends .
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• Canada
9 Sep 08
Thank you for your resonse .
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• India
9 Sep 08
i have no best frnds...but i have many friends who are best...i dnt knw how to classify best n good etc....my frnds are those who will stay by me on my down...who will understand me....
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• Canada
9 Sep 08
Thank you for your response .
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• United States
8 Sep 08
i DO NOT have best friends. I'll tell you why. I have close friends but I don't think I'll ever reach a point where I'll call them my best friend. The few best friends that i've ever had have always let me down completely. They turned out not to be the person I thought they were. When you put that much trust into a friendship and it turns out not to be what you thought it was it can really damage you. So i've decided that if i just have close friends, ones that i can call and talk to and hang out with then i'll be fine. I don't need to have a best friend.
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I do know exactly what you are saying because I have many that I had consdiered in the past to be a best friend only to find out they were not even a close friend let alone a best friend . My best friend has proved herself in ways that no one else ever could when times got really hard for me this last year and not once did she refuse to take the time out of her day to tell me she couldn't talk to me when I am sure there were times she had much better things to do then listen to me go on and on about the same things she had heard a million times before . Thank you for your response .
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• United States
9 Sep 08
I have a best friend. I have known her for about 12 years, but we became friends when we were about 13, now Im 23. I met her when I moved to a new school, we werent close at first, barely even talked, but as the year went by we talked more and I saw that we had things in common. We have been close ever since. Anytime I needed anything she was there 4 me, her family was there for me and vice versa. She is so much like my sister, I can talk to her about anything and she always tells me what I need to hear and not what I want to hear. I can always count on her to help in my time of need. Of course we have our disagreements, but we always seem to work out the issues, unlike other disagreements i've had with others that I called a friend. And like you it took us some years to consider each other a best friend, especially when the word "friend" is used around so loosely. We are about the same age and we have many of the same interests. We actually live together at the moment. I know many people say that you shouldn't live with your friend b/c later it may cause problems and u will no longer be friends, but that hasnt happened. We've lived together for the past 2 years and its cool, we know how to keep our boundaries and we know when the other is not having a good day or doesnt want to b bothered. Well in a nut shell my best friend is my sister, my greatest friend and anytime i or she is in need the other is there. Can't say that about too many people and thats why they r considered my associates and not a friend.
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• Canada
10 Sep 08
Very nicely said :) Thank you for your response .
• Canada
10 Sep 08
I do have a best friend we met in shcool and have been best friends every since . I didn't get along with her when we first met but we got to talking and we ended up really liking each other and then I went to her house . I even stayed with her for awhile when things were not going good for me at home . Now I would like it if she could come stay with me now that I have my own place and I don't get to see her all that much .
• China
9 Sep 08
yes ! i have~~~~`