What is a Friend?

Good A.M.,
I am a true advocate of the Fall and Winter. One because I was born in the greatest month of all. Secondly, you could truly absorb a person true since of style during these colder months. However, I am exhausted with this snow. Its enough to make me drink Pomegranate juice without a straw.

Well, on during one of my many cabin fever episodes. I commenced to meditate on the importance of friendships.
What is a friend? So, I decided to look for a meaning of what I thought a friend is and should be. After reading a plethora of meanings I completely and totally agree with my friends from Wikipedia, ( friend used very loosely). Here is what we say a friend is.

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.
Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis: the tendency to desire what is best for the other, sympathy and empathy, honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart
mutual understanding.
In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same continuum.

I usually never use the term best friend. Yes, I completely understand that BFF is cool to say. How should your other friends feel when you are not placing them in that same category? Well, with all that being said I just understand that there are different friends for many things. You are a multi faceted person. Therefore, you have friends for many things.

Similar to those non platonic relationships they need to be nurtured and cared for as well.
You are probably saying, "Mr. Cosmo, How do you nurture a friendship?

1. I send little personal notes to them. Yes, I write personal notes.

2. Yesterday, I sent this little message via text" If you threw a party, and invited everyone you knew. They would see the biggest gift would be from me; and the card attached would say, "Thank You for being a friend!"

Life is a wonderful thing. Be honest and understand that these friendships needs to be nurtured.
So, drop the BEST and be the best you can to yourself.