Yesterday night, a good friend told me he thought I was a close friend. One of the few. But I couldn’t say the same about him.

But that brings up that question. What is a close friend? Sure, I wrote a paper about the meaning of friend. But is there a definition that is the same for everyone?

Trust? Contact frequency? The mutual understanding? The natural desire to be there for the friend? The willingness to go out of your way? Where does it reach obsession? Or simply superficiality and shallowness? Or when is it an aquaintance? Where is the sincerity.

Communication is everything to me.