That's What Friends are For

I will never know, what would happen if I don't have a friend. If I don't have best friends around me. Well, everyone sometimes really need more time for herself/himself, of course, all of us still need "me time" or family time. But something that I know, we (or even me) will never be able to live without a friend.

When I was a teenager, I prefer to have some good friends with boys. I am not a tomboy, but I was thinking that to have some boy friends around, it felt so good. They seems very simple in every things, it is very different with girls. They are more open-minded, not fussy. We are still able to share stories about our family, our hobbies, our home-works, our activities, till someone that we love. Some people said, may be we (as a girl) should have to be careful if we have a friend's relationship with a boy. Sometimes it cause defamation or gossip if other people see us together―like people talking bad behind you, because they simply didn't know about our friendship― or there is a possibility for both of us to fall in love to each other.

Then, when I was in highschool and university, I chose to have more girl friends, instead of boy. I still have some boy friends of course, but yeah you know, some things may be not working very well with other boys. Moreover, when we just know them. I am really enjoying to have them both now.

It is not about gender anymore, but it is about the quality of our friendship.

Now I have really good friends since I was in the university. They are a lot. I might not to see them every days, because now we have different daily routines, like working or some of us already get married and have their own family. But it is not a big deal for us, we always trying to make some times to see each other.

To have our quality time together.

Good times together

I may not to see them frequently, but when I have a time to see them, our conversations will be full of laughter, annoying-words, make silly things and mock each other. We don't need to be someone else if we are together. They are already know who I am. That is the important thing in every friendship. They’re the ones who have been there, supporting us, throughout numerous losses and gains.

International Relations, Al Azhar University of Indonesia - 2008

Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree that friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness. The way friendship enhances well-being, it turns out, has nothing to do with quantity and everything to do with quality — researchers confirm that it isn’t the number of friends (or, in the case of Facebook, “friends”) we have, but the nature of those relationships.

Source by: Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

You know the feeling when you can laughs for weird things, there is only you and your friends who understand what are you laughing at. It is that we usually called, chemistry. Sometimes we never know when and how the chemistry was formed. We just feel 'click' to each other by our conversations. Sometimes the chemistry comes is not because for how long we knew our friends, but that moment when you can suddenly feel that you guys are already know for long time. Where the frequency of interaction was automatic. In fact, may be you've only known each other for a year, a month, a week, a day or even for an hour.

We do need comfortable feeling with some people that we meet in this world.

Sometimes a friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, what we need is the feeling understands each other in every circumstances, even though we are apart. Because we know that how far we wander, they will always be there. For you.