There’s this belief that best friends have to know each other’s secrets and be able to tell each other everything and blah blah blah, etc to qualify as “best friends”. Like, that’s good and all but there’s not some measurement where you can only have the best friend title after you’ve completed so-many milestones.
My best friend and I are not like that. Sure we can talk about a lot of stuff but we don’t usually delve into topics like relationships or deep feelings or secrets or whatever.
Equally, it’s not about time. There is a girl I’ve known the absolute longest I’ve known anyone that’s still in my life now, which is fifteen and a half years. And we never really clicked. We were just kind of obligated friends.
To me, a best friend is someone who you feel the most comfortable around. Someone you can joke and laugh with and makes you feel the happiest a platonic relationship can make you feel. It’s someone you feel you’ve really clicked with, someone you feel slightly lost without and crave their company after a while of being apart. To me, they’re the person that you can ignore in complete silence for hours on end and still have it be comfortable and feel like you’ve hung out. And I think that’s beautiful.
Let’s bash this belief or “requirement” in the head and get rid of it because there should not be limits or standards on how good a friend you are or can be with someone.