QotD: The Qualities of a Good Friend

What qualities must a good friend have?
Submitted by Alexandra.

To me there's two basic levels of friendship. "Friend" would be the people who you like spending time with and have some shared interests and stuff to talk about, but it doesn't really go beyond that. You can go a while without talking or doing anything and you don't necessarily get together to just…hang out.

When it crosses into "good friend" territory though, we're talking about somebody who will stick by you no matter what happens and who's willing to go out of their way to help you out of a jam if there's any possible way that they can. Somebody who doesn't mind listening to problems and somebody with whom I'm comfortable sharing stuff about me that nobody else knows. It goes the other way too, obviously. It's not all about what another person can do for you. It's about you wanting to help that person out too, no matter what.

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