Mellow Ezlo
Spoony Bard
This is a question that could change from person to person, but will always be the same general idea. What makes a true friend (as opposed to just somebody you call a friend) to you?
There are many factors that distinguish my true friends from just the people that I hang out with.
For one thing, the people I call true friends are always there for me. If I'm sad, or just having an all around bad day, then they will always be there to cheer me up. I know that I can trust them, too. I hang out with somebody who is always kind of a ****** to me, but I still somehow end up hanging out with him. He has never done a single thing to help me feel better; if anything, he makes me feel worse. I definitely would not put him on my list of the people I consider to be true friends.
I know I will always be able to trust my true friends as well. The reason I know is because they trust me just the same. We tell each other all kinds of stuff that we do not want other people to hear, and it never gets out. I tell secrets to anybody else, and the whole school finds out. The trust thing doesn't just mean telling secrets, however. I'll use a story as an example. That friend that I was talking about in the previous paragraph had borrowed my 3DS. When I got it back in two pieces, he said his dad's truck ran it over. With my real friends, that would never happen. I know that I could trust them with my life, as they would for me.
I have also never fought with them before. Not even once. We have no reason to fight. We may have the odd argument, but I have never had an actual fight with any of them. That friend that I named above? We fight all the time, on stupid things. It actually gets really annoying because our arguments go absolutely nowhere, and just end up resulting in us not talking for sometimes longer than a week.
Lastly, my true friends accept me for who I am, as do I to them. We have a lot of differences (for example: I listen to mostly rock, metal, and electronic music, whereas my best friend listens to practically nothing but rap... and Ke$ha), but we accept those differences. We don't try to change each other's views on politics, music, religion, or anything like that. Sure we may make fun of one another for some things, but in a friendly way. We know that it is always a joke, and that we never mean it as anything other than that. With other friends, that just doesn't happen. There is a lot of "Zelda sucks, haha you're gay" from the friend that I keep mentioning above, and he says it because he thinks it's cool, not because he likes to joke around. There is a key difference there, between joking and not joking, and that is what defines whether or not your friends truly accept you for who you are.
So that's my basic two cents on this topic, and I'm interested to hear your thoughts
There are many factors that distinguish my true friends from just the people that I hang out with.
For one thing, the people I call true friends are always there for me. If I'm sad, or just having an all around bad day, then they will always be there to cheer me up. I know that I can trust them, too. I hang out with somebody who is always kind of a ****** to me, but I still somehow end up hanging out with him. He has never done a single thing to help me feel better; if anything, he makes me feel worse. I definitely would not put him on my list of the people I consider to be true friends.
I know I will always be able to trust my true friends as well. The reason I know is because they trust me just the same. We tell each other all kinds of stuff that we do not want other people to hear, and it never gets out. I tell secrets to anybody else, and the whole school finds out. The trust thing doesn't just mean telling secrets, however. I'll use a story as an example. That friend that I was talking about in the previous paragraph had borrowed my 3DS. When I got it back in two pieces, he said his dad's truck ran it over. With my real friends, that would never happen. I know that I could trust them with my life, as they would for me.
I have also never fought with them before. Not even once. We have no reason to fight. We may have the odd argument, but I have never had an actual fight with any of them. That friend that I named above? We fight all the time, on stupid things. It actually gets really annoying because our arguments go absolutely nowhere, and just end up resulting in us not talking for sometimes longer than a week.
Lastly, my true friends accept me for who I am, as do I to them. We have a lot of differences (for example: I listen to mostly rock, metal, and electronic music, whereas my best friend listens to practically nothing but rap... and Ke$ha), but we accept those differences. We don't try to change each other's views on politics, music, religion, or anything like that. Sure we may make fun of one another for some things, but in a friendly way. We know that it is always a joke, and that we never mean it as anything other than that. With other friends, that just doesn't happen. There is a lot of "Zelda sucks, haha you're gay" from the friend that I keep mentioning above, and he says it because he thinks it's cool, not because he likes to joke around. There is a key difference there, between joking and not joking, and that is what defines whether or not your friends truly accept you for who you are.
So that's my basic two cents on this topic, and I'm interested to hear your thoughts