When is someone 'a friend'?

We were really surprised to hear a friend's actual name at his funeral. Did you know that 'Ray' was Mike's actual name?" "You called him Mike?" He was popular in a few different 'BBQ groups'. And even had different birthdays apparently. "We just celebrated his 57th birthday two months ago." "What!? With us he celebrated his 62nd six months ago." In unison: "Bastard!" It was a good funeral. Made some new BBQ friends.

Some say women see friendship in a different way that men do. Generally speaking, of course. But it may make sense as men's and women's brains are - literally - wired differently. And of course 'different' does absolutely not mean 'better' or 'worse'.

When is someone 'a friend' to you? If you know everything about eachother or is it enough to have a few common interests?

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Luckily friends are not like family and can be chosen. And most social media has a 'block' feature. Just in case you one day want/need to contact that person you don't really want to be friends with in real life. And sometimes you just simply 'drift apart', just like your values that can change over the course of time. 

Real friendship is about unconditional love. Unlike the kind in many relationships: "I love you unconditionally, but..." In a true friendship there is no 'but'. Hence, imho, friendship is the best kind of love.

Here's a poem I wrote on friendship:

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Friends (a #poem)

Of course he remembered that night!

Just not the occasion.

Drinks were more expensive there 

than at home but that was not the point.

Point was that they started talking 

and basically never stopped.

The more they found they had in common, 

the more differences they encountered.

And that was fine.

Of course.

'cause they were

Friends 

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