What makes a best friend?

Well, I am quite grateful to have a gang of best friends. To me, best friend is someone that will pick up the phone though it's late in the night as they know you are the one that calling. They will fight what is the best for you, share all the sadness and happiness with you. Best friend is someone that will used to say he/she will going to forget your birthday but will always be the one surprise you will great stuff!! To add on, best friend is also someone that will listen to your phone though you are facing financial crisis. Haha.

I have a many friends who I would call best at least 2 or 3.I just cannot choose which one would be the best.But what make them best?For me is important their opiniong, things they share with me and they are here for me if I need them.Each of us need support and this is what friends make the best.but not only share sadness, but also happiness and I love to have fun with them, talk to them and just spare my time with them.I cannot imagine my life without my friends, they make sense to my life.Even if you have a partner it is not the same ,like when you have a real friend.You can always find a new partner, but find a new friend is not so easy.For that I am so protective to them and trying to help them in every situation, just be their nest friends, like they are to me.I hope you will find people like that too, who would make your life more enjoyable and more happier.

though i have non best friend so far. but i will say that, a best friend should posses some attribute, such as confidentiality, trustworthiness, openess, caring, just like himself could be. to his friend also

I cannot list just one person as a best friend because I have a few and trying label one of them as being the 'best' of all the others doesn't feel right to me. The reason for that is because they all have unique attributes that make them special to me for who they are. However, there are some qualities that I look for when including people into my 'inner circle' of best friends. First and foremost is how open and trustworthy they are. Are they able to keep confidences and not spread things around? When I hear people talking loosely about their friends private business that is a big red flag to me. If they are doing it with them...why wouldn't they do the same thing with me? So that is an absolute with me...openness, honesty and ethical behavior. Secondly is their ability to 'handle their own stuff' and deal with conflicts as they arise rather than denying they exist and then sounding off to others rather dealing directly with me. I state that to new and and old friends alike..to be a friend with me..'getting real' and dealing face to face are things that I expect. If they are not able to do it fine...but they will not warrant my respect..or trust...and that is a choice they have made by the way they respond to me. Also shared values. I want a group of best friends who do their best to live by the Golden Rule. What they believe and how they think matters to me too. Are they reliable, someone that I can count on...and allow me to be there for them if I can. Friendships require give and take...and we learn to trust people by allowing them to assist us..and for us to assist them. Without that things are maintained on a more surface level. All of what I shared here is within the bond I have with my husband who..if I had to pick one best friend it would be him. He has always been here for me...is loving, kind, generous, strong and always does his best to handle his own stuff and make course corrections when needed. I have another 5 gal pal friends and we are all among the best of our friends. My hubby and I have a few couples that we hang out with and also consider them in the best friend category. So all in all I feel very blessed to have the friends I do..they make my life much richer because they are in it. So thanks for posting a nice topic and allowing me to celebrate the great friends I have. Raia

i have lots of friends in my work, but there is only few i can say my real best friend, its means she is the best for you. cares, and always there for you, and telling you what is good and what is right and never say negative things in you. obcouse we can fine our real friend or best friend. it may takes time. but most your family or my mother or my sister is one of my bestfriend.

Best friends are friends that can love you just the way you are (they hang out with you not because you poor or rich), accept you the way you are, (including all your bad habits, and adjust their habits to our bad habits), someone you can trust completly, will always be there for you even when you up and down, understand you, and care for you. You can share all your problems or happiness with them. And you should feel the same, in order to call your friends best friends.

Oh..my bestfriend. ACtually at first i don't like this girl! I had a bad first impression of her!hehehe. But i never expected that time made us close. Eight years of friendship. OW, I can't imagine. I had a friend that i treated as my bestfriend when i was in highschool and college. BUt shes the best of all of them. Other gone but she? She is still here. We started getting closer when she's elected as a secretary of the youth group that we joining with. I am the president so...thats the start of it. I love her and We're bestfriend forever! She's never gone the time i need her comfort and advise. She know her limitations as my friend. Understanding and frank. She know the whole of me. She just there waiting for my call. She never compet but she so very supportive.:)

Well I must say I truly do have a best friend. i was just reunited with her earlier this year. I hadn't seen her since i was young. I have looked for her for years and finally found her on the internet. She is one of the few people who I truly don't mind being around no matter whats going on it will work out. She likes me like I am and I her acceptance I think is a big part of friendship. I miss her more and relate to her better than anyone in my family.

A best friend is someone whom you are most comfortable to be around with. With hem/her you can talk about anything and everything, intelligent or stupid topics. With him/her you can be silent and not feel awkward about it, you can even go to sleep while he/she is talking and it won't really be a big deal. A best friend is someone who lets you be the person that you really are :)

I have had my very best friend since we were in the 3rd grade and we are now in our 60's. We have shared so many experiences together. We each have 2 sons all born within a few years of each other. 3 of those sons have served in Iraq. My oldest son is getting ready to go back for his second tour. She is the one who got me through a very tough divorce after a 20 year marriage and I don't know what I would have done without her support. When she got her divorce after 25 years I was there for her and it helped her to deal with things by remembering what I had gone through. We now are grandparents and starting a whole new avenue in our lives and as always doing it together. We have been through thick and thin, but the important thing is we did it -- TOGETHER. That is what a best friend is all about.