[INTJMom]

Originally Posted by Uberfuhrer

I'm asking from a philosophical point of view. In your own words, how do you define a friend?

I will not respond to this thread. I'm just interested in different viewpoints.

I will quote my favorite saying about what a friend is to me.
It sometimes attributed to other sources, or considered anonymous, but I think I have the writer's identity.

Oh, the comfort,
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot
pen name of Mary Ann Evans
novelist, 1819-1880