Why do you need friends?

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    Well, I hope this is the right forum as I don't think this fits in "other voting polls".
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    I'm mainly interested in 2 questions:

    1. How do you define a friend?/When is a friend a friend?
    2. Why do you have/Why are you looking for friends? What is the use of friends, if you can say it like that.

    I don't know anything else about this topic but I hope lots of people will answer my questions because I'm really curious about knowing why there are some people who are looking for friends very badly and why some people adore their friends like they were a God or something. Also, please try to be precise with your explanantations since I can't think of any reasonable answers. Thanks!
     
    1. Someone I can hang with in school breaks and sometimes go to him / he'll come to me. / Is a friend when I consider him to be? >.>
    2. Not looking for friends. If I'd come by someone I'd like I'll just get to know him. Or her (unlikely though).

    Also this thread is missing one huge point... Girlfriend aka better lol.
     
    ...I actually just wrote a report on this for school.
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    First, here's the definition.

    a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
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    Second, here's my interpretation.

    Friendship is when two people share feelings with each other not unlike that commonly associated with love. It's a common misconception that friendship is somehow on a different scale from conventional love. It actually couldn't be farther from the truth. Friendship is to love what a building is to its roof. Love is just the pinnacle, the highest place a friend can hope to achieve.

     I feel that the most important thing in friendship is the support and care of others. I mean, sure, friends make great people for fun times and fooling around with, but their best trait is almost without doubt their support and care. That feeling of having someone to depend on, to trust, is unlike anything a non-friend can give.

     The ideal friend is supportive, kind, and tolerant. Really these traits are the backbone of any healthy friendship. They leave plenty of room for individuality without having any loopholes to exploit. If your friend isn't demonstrating these 3 traits they're probably not doing their job.

    I'm one of those people you mentioned that may treat his/her friends like a god, even though I have an abundance to keep me far from lonely. It's because we as humans are a very social species, and it's in our blood to love the company and companionship of others.
     
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    I suppose people need friends because we are human and we are social. We need to communicate with or we don't have a purpose. A lot of people need friends because they need someone to do things with. For example, most people wouldn't go to the mall or go to the theater by themselves, they go with others, so they can share the experience together and have something to look back to when the day passes.

    For me, I find socializing with people to be useless. At least with teenagers because they have the same things in mind: go to the theater, go to the beach, go to the mall, go hang out at a club, go hang out at someone's house, play video games together, talk for hours about something insignificant (usually), etc. I don't find that to be fun at all. If I want to watch a movie, I'll buy the DVD when it comes out, I don't want to go to a theater to watch something I don't want to watch, but some people will do that because their friends want to go see it. If I want to play video games, I'll play by myself. I don't like going to the beach nor do I care about going to clubs, so those two are ruled out. And there's hardly anything to talk about unless you want to have a meaningful conversation with me, which most people don't want to do.

    Of course, I'm a human too, so I need companionship with someone, which is why I have a dog, and my dad is fun to talk to even though he is 40+ years older than me, so I'm not lonely. Friends are basically a compromise. If you have a friend, you probably have to help each other out when either of you get into some kind of trouble. And then there are some people who just feed off of other people and do not give anything else in return.
     
    I need friends to feel important. If they arent there I start to feel unimportaint and get quiet and sad. I look for friends because I feel a need to be the most important to someone, like someone considers me as a best friend. Dont get me wrong, I've got some REALY good friends, but I dont think I'm realy important to anyone.

    Sorry if I strayed off topic or sound like a downer, cause normaly I'm not. It's just my take on the subject.
     
    Well let's see..I need friends because I need someone to listen to my problems and can mingle with me. My trusted friends IRL are like my brothers and sisters to me so I cannot afford to lose them. An old friend of mine died, I really cried a lot. A friend can be called a friend if that friend of yours are connected to your heart and you are connected to your friend's heart and then love forms. <3 my gf.
     
    A friend is someone i can count on, that i can talk to without being judged or will just be there to listen. they are someone you can trust never to betray you, someone you can trust with your life.

    i have only a few people i would actually can a friend. there are others i hang out with but i dont consider my friends. i would like more friends but its hard to find people who wont judge me for the weird things i do and people i can trust with listening to my problems without stabbing me in the back for it.
     
    Umm.
    A friend is someone who looks out for you, takes the time to talk to you, and can be themselves around you. Someone who wants to make you happy, and have you avoid being down. A person who you can have fun with, and you feel blah when you're not with them for an extended period of time. Also, this:

    Zoroark-Nightmare said:
    if they don't come to school one day, you think you're gonna die because they're not there...
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    :)
     
    EpsilonE said:
    Because I don't have aspergers like the rest of this forum
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    Oh, hey, you're cool. Maybe you'd like to make a joke about retardation while you're at it.
     
    A friend is someone that doesn't make fun of people with syndromes and other mental disabilities.

    On a serious side, someone that can joke around, knows where the line is, is loyal, respects you and your decisions and doesn't ask for money.

    I'm super cereal about the money bit.
     
    Well, I think that without friends, half of us would be lonely. :/ I can't really think of anything else to say.. but I know that without friends, I'd be bored & lonely.
     
    A friend is someone you care about, enjoy spending time with, and regardless of whether it's somewhat casual or deeply meaningful, is part of your life.

    Humans are social creatures, and I'm no exception. A lot of what I do has more meaning if I have people to share it with who aren't just strangers passing by.
     
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    My friends are mostly just people to hang out with occasionally. Someone I can joke around with and can trust. I'm a pretty solitary guy for the most part and I usually don't do close social relationships but it's important to have a few people close to you to see things from other points of view and to learn to trust people.
     
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