What Is A Real Friend To You? (page 2)

Scully

A real friend is.....

someone you can tell your deepest darkest secrets to, and know they won't tell another soul
someone who can be totally honest with you and vice versa, and nobody's feelings get hurt
someone who knows what all your "buttons" are, but never pushes them
someone who likes you for who you are, not for what you can do for them
someone you can talk to for an hour that only feels like a few mintues

Love, Scully

safe4kids

I agree with Scully and Uzzah, especially:

Any fool will celebrate with you but only a friend will be there when you weep and then weep with you.

I think that real, true friendships take a very long time to nurture and develop. They have to be maintained in order for trust to be established and built upon. I don't believe that as a rule, we have many of those types of friendships in a lifetime and so when we are fortunate enough to acquire one, it's worth most any effort to keep it.

I've heard it said that friendships shouldn't have to be worked at, but I really don't think that's the case. I think that they, like any relationship that's important to us, require effort, time and attention, otherwise what's to keep them from fading away?

As for the above quote from Uzzah, hard times and difficulties are a real measure of true friendship, imo. It doesn't require a great deal of emotional energy to be a friend when things are going well, but how many of us are really there for each other when things get tough? To have a friend, one has to be a friend...trite but true :D

Dana

safe4kids

Ohhhh, I just read this in another thread. JamesThomas said:

true friendship is really about one thing: communication. Friendship, is about the freedom to communicate honestly and openly with trust. And of course honest and open communication opens a whole plethora of things which friendship shares

I think communication and honesty are very important components of friendship! Also, a good friend is someone who, no matter how much time has elapsed since you last saw/talked with them, you're able to pick up right where you left off, as tho no gap ever existed. And, of course, the MOST important thing about friendship is being able to make each other laugh [:D]

Dana *double dipping class*

minimus

A true friend is a LOYAL friend. A real friend will tell you their opinion to help you, even if they know you won't like it. That friend may not be the person you talk to every day but he is the one that you can count on anytime. A true, loyal friend will defend you, even if he's not 100% in agreement with you. A genuine friend is someone that doesn't stay angry over another's mistakes. A real friend is not that easy to find or always easy to be.

JH

Our friends would die for us.

That was the biggest lie the organization told.

I saw how selfish they all are.

Friends are rare, and good friends even more rare. I have more friends on this site than in real life. But we are too far away to test our friendship.

minimus

I too, think that believing that the Witnesses would die for us because of the brotherhood is a crock. The majority won't even talk to one another.Yet, they would sacrifice their life for someone they can't stand? Hardly.

Undecided

Except for my family, I guess my dog is my best friend.

Ken P.

Valis

A Real Friend:

Someone who stands up for you
Someone who welcomes you to their home, no strings attached
Someone you can call without fail when you are in a jam
Someone you can get angry with and have words, yet understand one another
Someone you can sit around and not say a word to all day
Someone who knows from whence you came
Someone who abides by the no Buillshit Rule
Someone who can keep a confidence
Someone who won't drink your last beer
Someone who won't smoke your last ciggie
Someone who would give you their last beer
Someone who would give you their last ciggie
Someone who lets you get buck wild and just laughs at you the next day ("Did I really that""..."Yes you did ahahahahah")
Someone who lets you leer at his old lady then reminds you how much she spends on shoes...
Someone who would travel thousands of miles just to party for a day

hrmrmr...maybe more later, but now I have to go steal someone's last beer...*LOL*

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

SheilaM

To amend my previous post:

I do want to add that I have had more friends on this board than in my many years in the dubs.

I have had people tell me things I hold in my heart and would never tell, I have had people talk to me when I felt down and needed a boost, I have had almost all of you respond to me about my fears about my son joining the Marines.I have had so much help in getting Thunder's novel together with your help and heck even helping me in school.

You all maybe be a keyboard away but to me I value you more than you'll ever know

Cassiline

"If you had a big problem and you only had ten cents left to call someone, who would you call? And if you spent that ten cents on that person who is top on your list to call, would that person be there to help you no-matter-what? If you have such a person in your life, you are more blessed than most, and you have a REAL friend."
Very few people are so blessed as to have friends like that.

People you can tell your deepest darkest secrets to...

I think Farkel and Scully sumed it up best....

Friends, those who will be there for you no matter what and tell you things you may not wish to hear but need to hear...

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