What's Your Defination of Friend?

It's all very arbitrary

 

Someone I can trust. Trust them enough that I can talk to them about just about anything. Someone who is honest with me. Who would never abuse or hurt me on purpose.
Someone who enjoys spending time with me and talking to me, and would actually contact me sometimes on their own. Instead of always waiting for me to contact them. And not just when all their other "friends" are busy.

 

Well, as long as I feel like I can trust them, they enjoy talking / hanging out with me, are nice to me & others and have no problem with the LGBTQ+ community I'll call them my friends.

 

2 definitions~

'Tomodachi' or 'friend,' someone I'm fond of, enjoy talking with or generally just feel comfortable around. Basically this is where I initially consider and acknowledge someone as a friend. then,

'Nakama' or Comrade, Compatriot, Family; Dear Friend. This is for someone who I love platonically and would be willing to die for or do anything to protect. People like this are rare but I've managed to collect a fair amount of them through my adventures in various places. It's said that there is no word strong enough to truly define Nakama.

 

It's a very trivial word to me. If i value someone, i make sure to tell them that in other ways, not by just calling them a "friend". Because, the word "friend" is being thrown left and right in today's society, it's hard to know for a fact, how much value each and every person puts into it, so therefore, i just chose to not put that much value into it and if there is a need, i express my feelings in other ways.

 

I have a lot of people who call me their friend, but I don't normally class people as my friends unless I actually trust them and talk to them a lot. And I don't trust many people. Maybe I'm just paranoid

 

I think Quiet Raven and Kageshiro gave two great definitions of "Friend" and I agree with them.

 

A friend is someone that I can be myself around and not have to worry about them changing their opinion on me due to my behaviour.

However, I don't really have any of those, so I am my own best friend. Also, my dog is someone I can go to if I need a friend.

 

Some who's loyal. Coming from a shit high school where everyone was trying to humiliate you I learnt to respect loyalty above all other traits.

 

What Kageshiro said

 

It's like the old Potter Stewart classification of what constitutes pornography: I know it when I see it. I really can't put it into words, but I know it when someone's my friend.

 

For me, a friend is someone who is loyal, trusting and who can easily hold a conversation with you without struggling to find something to talk about. Someone who even if you don't talk everyday, you still value the other person and at least send a quick message every so often to see how the other is going. Someone who even if you argue, your bond is too strong to let anything get in the way and someone who won't talk behind your back if you do find yourselves in a situation where you aren't speaking for a while.. Someone who will give you a chance when you have screwed up and let you make it up to them and just someone who is there for you and offer their help even when they aren't well themselves and are still concerned about your well being. Someone who doesn't need to talk, but just sit in silence and watch a good movie or tv show together.

 

A friend is someone who realises how moronic I am, and will still associate with me in public.

 

Hmm. I would say that for me there are:
Acquaintances- people I know (of)
Close acquaintances- people I can have good conversations and a laugh with
Friends- adding to last, people I feel comfortable around, and can hang out with them/do stuff together, have some common ground with
Close Friends- someone with who I would feel comfortable presenting a fairly uncensored version of myself (in other words share personal or embarrassing things with), and will do favours/work for
Amazing Friends- someone I could talk about anything with for hours, will always set aside time for... idk, just whatever comes to mind for a (theoretical) perfect friend.

Obviously I don't categorise people into those all the time. But basically for me the difference between someone being a friend and a good friend is that I don't feel pressures to present well/keep a conversation going, there's an element of admiring and helping each other and where I think the bond would be too strong to be broken for most things.

 

a person who allows me to do whatever i please and will give me attention when i want it

 

I read somewhere many years ago that a friend is someone who will help you bury the body...