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My experience with good friends is quite the opposite. I still am a good friend with the girl that sat beside me in school. It's been 18 years now. We had our ups and downs mainly because from one point we had no time to see each other after we finished school. But we still talk and from time to time meet for a cup of coffee.

My second best friend was a girl I met when I was 19 after school with which we studied in the same school journalism. We had one thing in common : we did not like each other. We were completely different. We still are. But since we admitted that to each other we became the BEST friends ever. It would take me pages and pages to write about all those important things she did for me. When I told her that I have not seen my godmother since I was 4 she said that SHE will be my godmother and she does all those silly things godmothers do when the kids are small although we are over 30 years old. I am not sure that this means something to you but I assure you that it meant a lot to me. Not to mention all the other things she done for me because I don't want to get to any personal details.

My third best friend -a male- was the guy who was sitting next to me to the university. We are friends for 14 years. Although he is ready to get married now, he remembers to call me every day, to see if I am ok, if I had a proper lunch (I keep forgetting to eat) and he makes sure that I will go to all the live concerts I want to for free (he is a journalist in a paper and he has free entrance for such events). He tends to get a bit violent to the people that harm me. Again with that person we were totally different.

My fourth friend is a girl that I met in a drinking dungeon 6 years ago. Her job is to make hats and I asked her to make a hat for me. When she asked me how I would like it to be, I said that I will leave it up to her. I wanted her to make a hat of what she thought my personality was. She made me a hat with all the colours of the rainbow. One black stripe was in the middle. We are friends since then and our friendship was strong even when I met her with my FIFTH friend who after a while hurt her (but that was not his intention).

My fifth friend is that creep mentioned above. I know him for 20 years. There is a good reason for him to be a creep so I accept him as he is, having in mind that life was not actually very good to him. He tends to get into fights but his cause is good. He tries to protect his beloved ones. So I try to heal the bruises every time without comments.

Those are my best friends. There have been many people in my life but those five passed all "crash tests" and remained strong and true. Sure there were people that hurt me. People who betrayed my trust. People who took my heart and ripped it to pieces. But if I allowed this to make me lose my trust to people, then I wouldn't have those wonderful people around me. So my thinking is that it is worth it. It will always worth it for me.

Sorry for the long post.

PS I didn't mention my mate because it is obvious that he is one of my best friends.