You've got a friend

[Heart]

A true friend is one who walks in, when everyone walks out

 

celebrate your friends, keep the friendship

[Nephylim]

I am totally and incredibly lucky with all the friends I have, in life, online wherever. I don't take friendship lightly and I am always there offering everything I can and all I am. I try to make sure all my friends know that as often as I can. Thank you for reminding me.

 

To all my friends on GA I would like to say that I may not have met you but each and every one of you has touched my heart and my life. So to you all I say 'Thank you' and if there is ever anything that I can do for you NEVER be afraid to ask

 

Thank you Hart.

[Heart]

I'm getting to like you more and more, you're a hun and you sound like someone who'd really pull out all stops if you knew someone was in need, thanks for your support for many of the guys on ga, I just luve your reviews, to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may mean the world, keep friendship alive

[jon-jon]

A true freind is someone who at 3 AM will bail you out of jail.

[Heart]

Friendship is the voluntary glue that holds together the hearts of complete strangers, making them family by choice. I'm truely blessed for having the type of friends with staying power. For me its about just being yourself with those people, completely yourself and being able to tell them anything and inspite of that, or what ever you say, they accept you unconditionally. Also for me, a friend is someone who'd understand and just be there, without even speaking and being loyal when you're at the bottom of the social scale

[jon-jon]

Friendship is the voluntary glue that holds together the hearts of complete strangers, making them family by choice. I'm truely blessed for having the type of friends with staying power. For me its about just being yourself with those people, completely yourself and being able to tell them anything and inspite of that, or what ever you say, they accept you unconditionally. Also for me, a friend is someone who'd understand and just be there, without even speaking and being loyal when you're at the bottom of the social scale

 

I'll go along with everything you have said except for the part I highlighted. If everthing else you said is true, how can they be complete strangers? How can anyone be "friends" with a complete stranger?

 

This is by way of being a pet peeve of mine. My next to last partner was in the habit of bringing home someone he had just met and introducing them as "my best friend ______ ". It didn't help that he was a real estate salesman and was meeting new people daily. It kinda cheapened the term "friend" for me.

[phana14]

A true friend is one who walks in, when everyone walks out

 

celebrate your friends, keep the friendship

I'm quite curious as to who is going to *walk* out when I *come* out!

*shivers*

[Heart]

I can see what you mean about cheepening friendship by calling a stranger a friend, but, there are also degrees of friendship. Someone you havent met yet is a potential friend and therefore whats wrong with calling them that. If you, eg. working in the radio industry, you need to sound friendly. while people listening to you arn't your close friends, there's a kind of bond, what can we call that. Most of us don't know each other, while we may not be close, there's a certain friendship, or maybe, connection there isn't there. I know what you mean though about your bringing friends home and calling them his close friends. i know of people who calls everyone they meat their best friends. John, totally agree about bailing you out at 3 in the morning. but what's the most amazing thing your friends done for you, it could be dumping you in the shower when you were drunk, watch you all night when you weren't feeling all that good, something that no one else would do,

[hh5]

I suppose in other languages they have it easier way of referring to someone without offending them

 

English -> Brother, Friend, Pal, Stranger, Hey You, Hey Idiot, Sir, Mame, Four Eyes, etc

 

The usage if you listen you can predict how it means

 

If the guy speak is a church goer and the other guy also goes to church -> Brother

 

But then you have to listen for any inflection - it could denote endearment or disrespect

 

Some use the direct approach to insult some one and some don't but use an inflection to mean don't come here again.

 

Then of course you have to look at mood

 

I say its a gamble to make a friend or a good friend or a bad friend or meet a criminal or killer or drug pusher

[jon-jon]

I can see what you mean about cheepening friendship by calling a stranger a friend, but, there are also degrees of friendship. Someone you havent met yet is a potential friend and therefore whats wrong with calling them that. If you, eg. working in the radio industry, you need to sound friendly. while people listening to you arn't your close friends, there's a kind of bond, what can we call that. Most of us don't know each other, while we may not be close, there's a certain friendship, or maybe, connection there isn't there. I know what you mean though about your bringing friends home and calling them his close friends. i know of people who calls everyone they meat their best friends.

 

I just tend to differentiate between an acquaintance and a friend. An aquaintance is someone I have just met or been introduced to. It could be a friend of a friend who had joined us for a dinner out. If I never see that person again, he will remain an acquaintance. Being friendly is different than being a friend. To me friendship denotes a certain amount of responsibility, one to the other. I would of course be friendly during dinner but unless our interaction over dinner led to further developement, a bonding as you put it, between the two of us (I'm not talking relationships here) then I don't think I would discribe our meeting as friendship.

John, totally agree about bailing you out at 3 in the morning. but what's the most amazing thing your friends done for you, it could be dumping you in the shower when you were drunk, watch you all night when you weren't feeling all that good, something that no one else would do,

 

Actually, dumping me into the shower came after bailing me out. Hehehe.

[JamieD]

I think a BEST friend is the friend that you can hang out for hours at a time, just the two of you with nothing to entertain you and still have a lot of fun and not think that it would be cool if some other friend came over (i'm not mentioning stuff like being there for each other at any time cause that should be obvious).