See, what you really mean EW, is that you would be screwed if your closest friend got hit by a bus, because you aren't as independent as I am. Not an insult, that's just how you are.
Ahhh, disregard. Let me share with you a couple of observations:
I feel like I really got under your skin with my previous post. That certainly wasn't my intention, but since you have made FIVE separate responses to my one passing comment, it's hard for me to not think that I hit upon a nerve. Once again, that was not my intention.
Now as to the nerve I presumably touched upon when I asked you if you weren't like all human beings in that you, too, needed friends:
First of all, I'm a fiercely independent person who needs no one else to define her. It may have taken me 35 years to get there, but I am completely comfortable in my own skin and am a self-contained juggernaut of coolness. So my motivations for making this comment have nothing to do with me being extraverted or an ENFP or anything else except for my life experience.
I feel like I've learned from the school of hard knocks that we all need people. This includes you, too.
Once again, our need for people has nothing to do with being introverted or extraverted. It has to do with HUMILITY. It has to do with living long enough and having enough crap happen to you that you realize that no one can do it alone. And, that everyone needs more than one person in their support network.
I completely accept that you don't feel like you need any other friends. But this is not what I take issue with.
I argue that regardless of your inherent desire to have lots of friends or one friend, you need to have more than one close friend. Again, this isn't because I think you're secretly pining away for more friends but afraid to tell anyone. It's just that limiting oneself to a single close friend seems like a short-sited strategy to succeeding in life... it is not a well-balanced, pro-active approach to facing life's obstacles.
However great your baby is, he has his bad days. He has his weaknesses. He may become embroiled in his own issues that will take up all his time. He is encumbered by his own biases. He may get hit by a bus.
I'm not casting aspersions on your baby. I'm just stating that all human being have their foibles and their circumstances that they can't control.
You need more than one friend NOT for the obstacles you anticipate. You need more than one friend for the obstacles you DON'T anticipate. Because sometimes the load is too heavy for only two backs to bear.
That is all I meant to say. And I tell you this not as my opinion, but as a universal truth based upon my experience.