How Many Friends Do You Have?

[holysoldier5000]

Very, very good advice. Many times, that's the reason why one is left without friend, but not always.

Well it takes effort to make friends. I once did not have many friends and I would brood over the fact and isolate myself further from society. I made myself a person who no one wanted to be around and no one was around me because of it. But then I started to be more friendly. Talking with people, listening, dropping a line, and just taking time out to care about someone else other then me. Being a friend means caring about someone other then ourselves. Sometimes people think that they have to give up their individuality to have friends, and they have to fit in to be considered normal. And true this would be a way to get friends, but they would be superficial friends, and not true friends. The key to gaining real good friends is it be yourself but also practice Christian virtues. In Colossians 3:12-14 it says, "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." People like someone who is compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, patient, forgiving, and loving. You mat not attract everyone, the bad superficial friend will flee from these virtues, but the good caring best friends will be attracted by them.

God Bless
HS5000

[the_lizardqueen]

[quote="Holysoldier5000"]Good Advice: “To get friends you must be a friend.â€

[Swordguy]

i don't know how many friends i have...i consider alot of people friends...and i would have to agree with holy soilder, to have a friend you must be one yourself. lead by doing...not saying. but God has lead me to alot of great friends...but still my greatest has to be God Himself...

also i am glad to hear your wife is your best friend...that is good news...some people get marred and not really friends at all....

My prob seems to be that I'm always trying so hard to put others before myself, I go out of my way to be friendly, to listen to others and offer help when they need it. And yet I've been passed up by so many people in the past, they just move on to cooler people who are more fun to hang around. I'm probably not making too much sense, I'm afraid I'm rather mad right now because I just realized that one of my supposed best friends has pretty much ditched me.

Lizardqueen...friends like arn't worth having.

[bbboy21]

Tons online...real life...probably some at my class...........but in the end......zero true friends -_- I never really had one.

[Shadowchild]

i have a few good friends but most of my friends are here on CAA and on quizilla. ^-^

[Silvanis]

I've got lots of not online friends and not as many online friends. My online friends are all here though, so that's cool!

[Shadowchild]

that is confusing silvanis did you read what you wrote?

[shooraijin]

I think she's saying she has many offline friends, and not as many online friends as off, but most of her online friends are here. That's how I interpreted it.

[Kisa]

have a few here at CAA online....
maybe about 10 in real life, lol....
i think its the quality of the company not the quantity that counts ^_^

[termyt]

I would say I have five friends, which is a lot for someone my age. I never really thought about it until now, but I'm very blessed in that respect. Especially considering I don't make friends very easily.

Of those friends, there are two who are very close to me, which is also a considerable blessing.

I also feel quite close to some of the folks here at CAA, but it really feels kind of different. I'm not sure how to explain it beyond the strange look some people get when I speak of this or that person whom I met online.

[Syaoran]

For online friends...it would be....all of you guys.

[SnoringFrog]

I've got about 3-4 friends I'm pretty close to and that I can trust with almost anything and know that they will keep their word, then I have another group of friends that I talk to at school(my school was started by my church and they are across the street from each other so most of my church friends go to my school) This group changes alot depending on who I sit next to and who my locker is by. Then there is another group of people that I'm more of aquaintences with. That is pretty much the entire youth group my whole class and almost half of the 9th grade(I'm in 8th), plus 2 or 3 seniors.

[umathurmanlover]

i know it sounds sad, but I have only about 3 true, close friends..highschool ended and i really had no desire to stay in touch with the "guys", because for the most part those friends never really braught anything positive, spiritually speaking, in my life. I still love 'em but for the most part i'm happy with the few close friends i have. other than that i have alot of cool casual friends.

[Sammy Boy]

Heheh .. I remember that as a kid I used to count how many friends I had in order to cheer myself up if I got sad.

Now, around two decades later (I am old), I have around 5 close friends that I've known since 1995 (one guy as early as 1991). Together, we think of ourselves as "the guys". Heheh, pretty arrogant huh?

We like eating, talking about stupid things (insulting each other with cheap name-calling, etc.), playing arcade games together (Street Fighter 2, Daytona, etc.), eating some more (this time at MacDonald's), listening to one of our friends talk about his martial arts skill progression (when I asked if he could do a fireball, he felt I was mocking him), and most of all being frank with each other when we have problems.

I also have another 10 or so friends, but I don't hang out with them as much.

[Ichigo_89]

3 tight ones. 2 I know but don't hang with.

[Espoir]

alot of my friends have moved away, and while i hold them dear, they aren't acessable to just hang out with.

so, about 7 "close" but far away friends

family doesn't count, they are always hangin arround

5 or so "hang out with" friends

3 super tight with-you-till-the-end friends

I've come a long way from the girl who had literaly 0 friends to now.
God has blessed me and put alot of really neat people in my life, even if I'm not super tight with all of them.

[TurkishMonky]

there's a group of 3 of us college nerds that i hang out with a lot, then
theres a really cool guy who i talk about deep intelectual stuff like theology and physics with all the time, then in my homeschool graduating class there's 2 guys i hang out with, and my youth pastor is my friend, and then a bunch of other friends i hang out with... lets see...
so around 6 close friends, and around 20 hang out friends (from various places, it's not like i have a crowd of twenty following me everywhere lol around 2 or 3 at a time)... and the rest of my family...

[Cognitive Gear]

10 close freinds.

[Yumie]

I'm really close to just about everybody in my youth group, with just a few exceptions. We all grew up together (literally, we've all been in the same church since we were born. . .) Beyond that though, I have probably. . . five close friends from camp, and a couple other who I'm not AS close to, but they're still pretty good ones. a couple of pretty good friends from my Friday co-op, and probably a handful of others I'm not thinking of. . . hmmm. . .

Also, I'm really tight with all of my cousins.