Who said we didn’t count?
But then I guess the debate on whether a virtual shoulder can ever be as good as an in-person one might should be left for another time!
I’ve got two friends that I would consider best friends.
The first I have known since before we were bond (or so our parents are fond of saying). Our moms were in the same prenatal class together, and we were born a couple of weeks apart (he’s the older one). His mom was my babysitter all through elementary school. We were involved in the same things (choir, drama, and such), and in a lot of the same classes. He’s currently going to school out of town, but whenever he comes back we hang out quite a bit. A great friend; like a brother.
My other best friend I’ve known for…6 or 7 years. We seemed to go out for coffee every night for quite a few years. Now we still go out for coffee, but not so much when school’s on (I’ve got school stuff, and he works). We were involved in drama together and it started there. We were on the improv team together through most of high school (along with the best bud I mentioned before). Our improv team even won the provincials & went to nationals in our grade 12 year.
I’ve got a lot of friends, but they’re probably my best friends…at least, locally. I’ve made several friends over the boards that are my best friends that I’ve never met. Hopefully I’ll meet them soon.
I don’t really have many friends, non currently that I could call my ‘best friend’. I’m not a very easily social person in a non virtual manner. I used to have someone I considered my best friend, but he moved to Florida and our interests shifted and we really don’t do more than occasionally say hello anymore.
I have recently re-evaluated this very question.
What I decided was that a friend, a true best friend is there for you unconditionally. Someone who although may not like your decisions, sticks by you because they are your friend.
Evilbeth, I can’t help but wonder why you feel the need to hear about our best friends. If there’s anything I can do, lend an ear, whatever, you know how to reach me. To answer you fully would take an enormously long post, so I’ll do my best to condense it.
IRL, I have been blessed to have several dear, wonderful friends whom I can depend on for absolutely everything. Some of them are known on this board. Vestal Blue and I go back to high school days, when he and my older brother were best buds and he was at our house all of the time. In the past year we’ve grown closer than ever, and I’d have to say he’s one of the best friends I have in this world. Even though he lives so far away with his family in Idaho, we ‘talk’ via email every day pretty much and on the phone several times a week. I can tell him everything and anything, and trust that he will always have my best interests at heart.
Maidenunicorn and I also go back to high school days, although we weren’t nearly as close then as we are now. She has been here for me so many times, and I try to do the same for her. Good times, bad, divorces, remarriage, all of it. And she’s been here for me through some medical issues and a rocky time in my marriage and children trouble and on and on. We don’t always agree on everything, but that’s okay, we’ll always be here for each other.
Pipefitter met me when Mr Bear was over in Turkey for the Air Force, and we’ve been tight buddies ever since. He’d do anything for me, and vice versa. We chat online often and keep in touch via phone and emails and even though he lives up in Michigan, I feel close to him too.
My friend Tom I’ve known since I was 12 yrs old, and our dads were stationed over in the Philippines at the same time. Through many moves all over the world, through the trials of high school and dating and all, he’s been there for me. He knows me better than anyone else in the world, except for Mr Bear, and there’s no one I’d trust more with my life. He has often known how I’m feeling, what I’m thinking before I do, which is an uncanny knack and used to be quite disconcerting. Now, I just expect it, and gave up years ago trying to hide anything from him.
I don’t count Mr Bear because he’s so much more than just a friend, even a best friend. It’s hard to find one word to describe all he is to me, even husband doesn’t cover it all, so I won’t even try. He just is.
Online, especially on here, I’d be very hard put to list those I consider my friends, there are so many of them. Those of you whom I chat with online and/or emails know who you are. Each and every one of you is so very special to me. I have ones I’ve chatted with for many months, and some recent new ones and so many of you, it would truly be unfair for me to list you as I’d be bound, with my poor memory, to forget someone. I couldn’t bear to hurt anyone by doing that, so I won’t chance it.
The bottom line in what is true friendship I think is unconditional love and acceptance. With the above mentioned people, I would say that fits all of them, though each relationship is different and unique. I would trust all of them with my very life, and with all I hold dear. I have strived to live by this motto: The best way to have a best friend is to be one.
Thank you Purplebear very kind of you to say. I would also say that if it weren’t for your friendship over 20 years ago, I most likely wouldn’t be around today…and I thank you for that. I have enjoyed being your friend all these years, and can always count on you being ther for me if I ever need anything, and vice versa.
Besides her, I really have no other close friends, and for that I can thank my ex-wife for, though she was allowed to have them, and whenever I did call to say that I was going out with co-workers, she always had the excuse that she has had a hard day (though she didn’t work, and the kids were at school).
Trav and I met each other in the playground at McDonald’s. My mother and his grandfather started talking about preschools; Travis’ family was looking for one for him. Mom suggested the one that I was going to attend. We were best friends for a few years, then went to separate schools. In 8th grade we were back in the same school, and the rest is pretty much history.
He’s my schnoogie.
My other best friend I met in September. Elizabeth is a bit nutters over Dar Williams and right now is in severe matzah overkill.
Those are my best friends.
God…I feel like I never left high school some days 
I have six count them six best friends: Robin.Meredith,Jessica,Becca,Denise and Brian.
Me and the girls try to have Grrl’s Night Out every two weeks and we have our litte group nicknames after our celeb crushes…so it’s me(Mrs Jeff Hardy),Robin(Mrs Jon Bon Jovi),Meredith(Mrs Jakob Dylan),Jess(Mrs Ben Affleck),Becca(Mrs Brad Pitt) and Denise(Mrs Chris Jericho). Yep we’re mental
And Brian-if I email him and tell him I need to be cheered up he sings me a song. My user name comes from a song he sang to the tune of Barbie Girl called Hardy Girl:)