Can best friends be too different?
By kesfylstra
@kesfylstra (1868)
United States
15 responses
@MrsFrizzle (1963)
• United States
29 Oct 06
Enjoy your friendship while you are still having fun with each other. One day it may not be this way anymore becuse you have changed but you will both still have great memories and life experiances. You will know if it is time to end a friendship but if that is not the case they just enjoy it while you have it. Plus you never know she could come around and become differnt as well.
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@MrsFrizzle (1963)
• United States
30 Oct 06
Well faith is differnt for everyone. I am not very rligious but I have many religous freinds and we still have a lot of fun together. It you are both good people does it have to matter if she does not belive the same things?
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
29 Oct 06
Thank you, I appreciate your honesty in saying that it may end. But, I will continue to enjoy it. I pray she will "come around" because one of our major differences is faith!
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@sweetie88 (4556)
• Pakistan
1 Nov 06
Yeah, it can happen. Friendship is friendship. It is n't seen at the time of friendship that whether our choice resembles or n't.
@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
3 Nov 06
Very true. I will choose to continue on in my friendship, then.
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@khushboo1984 (1257)
• India
28 Oct 06
Yes best friends can be as different as the north and the south pole . I have 2 best friends and we all are very different from each other. What binds us together is our trust, our dedicationa nd our friendship.Actually these differences in our personality makes our friendship more interesting. And we are best friends for more than 7 years now.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
28 Oct 06
My friend and I have been close for almost 20 years... and I'm only 24! But is there a point when friends can grow apart?
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
29 Oct 06
Thank you, I will continue to do that.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
28 Oct 06
Yeah, I guess that is pretty different :-P
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
31 Oct 06
I guess 20 years of growing up together could be considered something common, huh. That is good insight, thank you.
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@caribe (2465)
• United States
9 Nov 06
I think you can still be best friends even though you are very different. I don't think religious beliefs should come between your friendship. If those things bother you, agree to disagree. I miss my best friend so much, even though she passed away long ago.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
14 Nov 06
I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't know what I would do if I lost her.
@givemechance (3794)
• Indonesia
4 Nov 06
hey...
even, you are have different pages at diferent time in your self.Don't take it in your mind.Be wise man.Be democrat.
thank you.
peaceeee..... greeting
@fakhruddin (7)
• India
30 Oct 06
dude, frnship does not exist now. u r talkin about best frnds? all these is just for name sake.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
30 Oct 06
That is a very interesting point of view. I am talking about a person I have known and shared many life experiences with for the past 20 years, and is still a confidant and emotional-support for me. I am wary of the term best friend also, though, because isn't my husband supposed to be my best friend? Well, he's my husband. So I do understand what you mean by them just being titles.
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@sunita64 (6469)
• India
23 Dec 06
You know that opposites attract and similar repel, that is the case in friendship.We are usually attracted to other for something which is lacking in me.But that makes for great bonding. As far as differences are concerned they can be sorted out if both of you understand that every individual has a right to keep his or her views.
@sweetpea_216 (1470)
• United States
8 Dec 06
I think that we respect each others values as long as they respect ours. Also, if you guys are friends, then you know each others differences and should understand that everyone leads thier own life. Friendship is knowing where each other stands.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
8 Dec 06
Very true, thank you. Sometimes I think we're afraid to acknowledge that we stand on such opposite ends on some things.
@Odawallie (128)
• United States
21 Dec 06
Me and my best friend are the same way. We are almost complete opposites but we are best friends and I love hanging out with him. We fight almost everyday about the most stupid things, but I am always right of course. We get along but we don't have much in commen. I guess sometimes it is good to have a friend that is opposite of you just to get a different perspective, I know I have learned a lot from it!
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
22 Dec 06
Yes, that is true. Sometimes she keeps me in the middle.
