How many friends do you have?

Good question. I, too, don't think it's anything to do with taking or giving help. I've given and been given help to and from strangers.

I'll have to consider it a while, but I think it's to do with how few filters I need around someone. Like, I have a friend in her 70s and we totally connect in many ways, but I'd never start talking about, say, tripping on mushrooms with her. She's just so not that type and wouldn't understand it. Although the longer I know her, the more likely I am to open up topics like that. But that's a small unimportant subject and I do consider her a friend (not included in my original count).

Basically I think the fewer filters I need, the more of a friend someone is. My best friend, there is nothing about me hidden from him. I can be entirely, freely myself. But I will consider this for a while : )

What do you think?

 

I agree with you 100%

 

100%. This is definitely how I would define a friend too. I feel comfortable enough to let down my guard completely around very few people and the people where I feel I can completely be myself have my undying loyalty

 

To an unfriendly post, duh : )

 

A logical conclusion as Mr. Spock would say.

 

My ride or die squad has gotten smaller over the years. I have 4 very close friends, 2 of them are basically family. Then there are people that I haven't known as long. They're good people, but I don't see them enough to make that kind of bond. All and all I have 12 people in my life I'd consider legit friends. I've always been outgoing and made friends easily. I guess that's what happens when you come from a tiny family

 

i would assume if anything, people from big families would be better at making friends, since they've had more practice dealing with people.

but overall i don't think there would be a super close correlation either way; i would think it's more about innate personality than family size.

 

IDK I always assumed I was compensating by filling my life with more people

 

I can haz friend?

 

2. I had a big group of friends but they all kind of flaked out on me over time. Mainly these days I have fellow couple friends. They're engaged and they're literally the only people that me or my gf hang out with other than her mom or mine. But I'm not sad about it. I would rather have 2 good friends than 20 fake friends.

 

Truth.....



Cheers Glen.

 

None.

 

I’m a loner but still cool if ya know what I mean.

 

I used to think it was cool not having any friends but I've recently realised they can actually be quite fun. So I'm all on the Band wagon for having friends atm. I still need my quiet time though, so like this weekend don't need to see anybody but then next weekend I have presentation night and then camping the week after then an awesome Xmas party and like none of those things would be fun if I'm flying solo.

So I raise my mead horn to friends in life, let's drink and sin all through the night, let's celebrate our mortal lives we'll be hell and fury when we ride

 

Aren't we all? it's better to be without friends, because hald of them don't even know how to treat a friend the way a friend supposed to be treated, they'll turn on you and stab you in the back.
when you're in trouble, they'll stand and watch, instead of helping...that kind of shit, you know?
those aren't "real" friends, only fake ones pretending to be your friend, just to use you for all they can.

 

i like the idea of having friends, but i also like not having to be around other people all the time.

i also like the idea of adopting whatever feral creatures might choose to adopt me,
and wish i lived in a world where landlords didn't hate this idea,

or where you wouldn't need landlords because you could build whatever you felt like,
as long as it wasn't too close to where someone else did,
and without having to indenture yourself to symbolic value to gain title to land and permission to build.

(and not living such a place is not living a place i would call a free country)