What qualities Do We look for in Good or Best Friends?
Someone who even if you haven't seen them for years you can pick up your friendship like you were never apart...
A good shoulder to cry on
Great sense of humour
Someone who will comiserate with you and also encourage you to get over it
Someone who knows ALL your bad habits but loves you anyway
A person that I can get silly with and know for sure that they accept my wacky side, my loud mouth and sarcasm, a person that I know if I get drunk and strip they wont go telling the whole world. Someone who I'm not afraid to be me around, someone that doesn't want me to be perfect.
For me, I'm not sure that I look for anything in a person to become friends with. I have friends with a wide variety of traits, but the one thing I do know is that the one characteristic my best friends have is trust. I trust them completely. It takes a while to develop, but I know that I can share anything with them, and they will will help me rather than judge me. I also know that they trust me to help them out no matter what the cost.
I have friends who are funny, friends who are serious, friends who share my interests, friends who have completely different interests, but anyone I consider to be a friend, is someone I trust.
Someone, male -or- female...who has never tried to fuck me - literally or figuratively.
I am fortunate to count a select few top-shelf friends, who I've enjoyed making love with...ages ago.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
having the ability to know how to be a friend
being in your corner thick or thin
supportive through the rough times.
Okay this one I gotta think about...
1 Someone who lets your cry on their sholder's
2 someone who loves you even though you cant spell worth shit
3 someone who will delete your computer history if something happins to you
4 some one to laugh with
5 someone who will go to a movie with you and have just as much fun as you......
6 someone who dosent judge you by looks color shape or size!
"Haters make me FAMOUS!!!"
Sassy
Based on the definitions made in this thread, I don't think I've ever had a best friend before, not the way you all describe them.
I guess my ex-fiance would be the closest I've had to a best friend, but that's been over for four years. I can think of four or five guys throughout my life I would call a "good" friend. I have one in my life currently, but life is pulling us in different directions. I have a fwb, but we don't "talk" to each other in a "best" friend way. We hang out, she's fun, but we don't "share".
I have lots of friends, but I don't "talk" to any of them, not when it comes to myself anyways. I don't talk to anyone about myself for that matter. I have lots of family, but I'm not "close" with any of them. In fact, I think I keep everyone at a distance, when it comes to personal or private matters. I think I probably consider more things "private" than the average guy.
Ironic, my anonymous "online" friends, probably know more about me than anyone in my actual life. This actually kind of makes me feel lonely, even with plenty of people in my life. I guess I'm just not the open type, unless its anonymously on the internet of course.

In order to know virtue, you must first become acquainted with vice.
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
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En vis mann slår aldri en hund i klubben med en stokk, fordi hunden vil vende rundt og biter mannens ballene av. Well I need to say that ,, I am hearing good answers to the question here.
Some how we all seem to parallel with each other a lot ,, and Primal ,, We have more in common with the whole family thing ,, the issue of being open with them ,, I know the feeling .
What I see the most is the need for trust in a friend ,, you Know ,, can I trust you ,, or can you trust me ,, kind of thing.
Once you have ever been burned or lied to by a friend ,, it gets hard to trust again.
I think ,, that we can have good friends ,, but the best friends or friend is the one who is there when it is all over for you .
Let me tell this one real quick ,, then I''ll shut up.! I've got a good friend ,, that I work with from time to time ,, and when we first met,, we were working on the same job at the same time.
And I was diong my job ,, and he asked the homeowner ,, how much money do you pay him to be here doing his work ,, and the homeowner told him ,, then my good friend told the owner that I worked too cheap , and if he was in another state doing the same job ,, That he would be drawing four times that amount of money.
The owner stated that my work wasn't worth more money ,, because I didn't SPECIALIZE in anything.
About a year later my friend told me of the conversation.
I had to ask at this time ,, Why didnt you tell me this sooner? Then He replied I thought he was using you,, and it is unfair.
This made me a bit unhappy ,, Soon I quit working for the other guy.
My good friend felt bad because of this ,, He learned that a good friend to me watches my back even when I cant.
My good friend and I have a very strong understanding of watching each others back now.
End of Sermon ,, Thank you for your patience!
A good friend knows every single thing about you- and still loves you.
Forgive me if I mess this up, however, I have found that the old proverb "Everyone wants to be your friend when life is good to you, but only your best friends WABNT to know you when things go bad" rings very true.
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - Korben Dallas, from The Fifth Element
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
I think my brother is the only person other than my parents who I would trust to have my back. Still, I would never want them to know everything about me, that would make my brain explode, and I would probably avoid them if they did.
I trusted a friend once who I at the time, considered my best friend. He ditched me at a lake to go get stoned with people he barely knew, that never sat right with me after that. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it pissed me off royally at the time. I could understand if it was for a girl, but it wasn't.
I told the wrong "friend" something very personal about me, and not a month later she stopped talking to me out of nowhere (not related to what I told her). I thought we were good friends, we used to hang out almost daily, but she disappeared for 6 months until one day I ran into her on a sidewalk downtown. I asked her what happened and why she seemed to have dropped me off in the trash, and she told me to fuck off and that she already had too many friends, and she walked away. Have yet to see her again, that was 7 years ago. She's a lesbian, we were just friends, I never hit on her, still clueless about what the fuck happened. Talk about a blind side.
She was the last person in "real life" I opened up to. I didn't even tell my ex-fiance what I told her.
Hmm, I don't trust people. This is glaringly obvious.

In order to know virtue, you must first become acquainted with vice.
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
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En vis mann slår aldri en hund i klubben med en stokk, fordi hunden vil vende rundt og biter mannens ballene av. Well I can see why ,, Sorry that part of your life isn't pleasant.
A best friend…
My best friend and I used to date [she’s gorgeous] after a while our sex life got kind of boring, so I had the great idea of bringing in a real life sex toy. Most of the guys were ok a good fuck but nothing else. Then we met Jesus; lmfao!
When Jesus came into our life, he really took care of us. Next thing I know my girl and him were spending time alone – me being the trusting person that I am. I never thought they were more than fuck buddies. Then one day Jesus comes and asks me if he can date her, he tells me how wonderful she is and how he loves her so much.
What could I do? I backed off, a couple months later they got married. I was the maid of honor. Now that’s friendship! Now they have a baby and I’m going to be her godmother… Weird but true.
Then there’s my male best friend Ram - well that’s a different story and I don’t want to bore you. But best friends are hard to come and easy to keep. There are no secrets; there is no judging, only understanding and a love very hard to explain.
You sure have a good outlook on life.
A good friend holds your head over the toilet when you're drunk.