How To Be A Best Friend

Most of the people in our lives are acquaintances, someone we wave to when we see them in passing. Some of our acquaintances we can't even remember their names or even where we know them from but we know, somehow we know them from somewhere.

The next group of 'friends' we have are usually our co-workers, the people we are on the job with each day, sometimes they know a lot about us and we know a lot about them but they are not the people that we usually want to spend our free time with.

There are other people we call 'friends', they may be the people we go to church with, or are on a team with, maybe even in a club with. You may actually be friends with some of these people. By friends I mean someone who you like to hang out with sometimes, maybe do things with, you know it's fun being with them as long as they don't wear out their welcome because too much of a good thing is just too much!

A best friend knows what makes you laugh; it's the same things that they think are funny. They are the person you laugh with when no one else sees anything funny. With a best friend you can be yourself and not feel stupid about yourself.

Your best friend is the person who knows you so well that even if they see you with a big smile on your face they will look right into your heart and see how you are really feeling.

You can be having the worst day ever and call from them will have you feeling better even if thing aren't any better.

They know all your secrets the good, the bad, and the ugly about you and they love you anyhow.

A best friend is always on your side, it doesn't matter to them if they think you are right or not, it doesn't matter if what or who you are up against is bigger than the both of you together, they are there on your side always.

There are very few true best friends out there and they usually come only once in a lifetime. If you have a best friend, know that you are one of a very small percentage of relationships. So do everything to be the best, best friend you can be, because you will probably never have another one in your lifetime.

A best friend friendship is very special and must be guarded from people who don't understand it because they don't have a friendship like it. People have a tendency to want to destroy what they don't understand. This kind of friendship needs commitment of time, loyalty, and love. This friendship is worth the commitment.

If you are lucky enough that your best friend is also your mate (husband / wife, live in boyfriend / girlfriend, or significant other) that you plan to spend the rest of your life with then you are part of and even rarer group of people.

To be best friends with your lifetime mate is truely the greatest relationship you can have with another human being. So remember not to take the relationship for granted, but continue to work on it every day to keep it healthy and new.

Three weeks ago yesterday, on March 1, 2012, I married my best friend and joined that rarest group of people, the people that are married to their best friend!

Are you up to this kind of friendship?
If you have a friend and are a friend like this then you have more than the richest person on earth.