Ununhexium
I closed my eyes and I slipped away...
I'm really curious as to what you find to be the definition of friend. I've been really curious about this topic for a while and I even looked it up on dictionary.com to see if it would help at all (I'll link the page here). I suppose I'll provide a bit of background information here.
I'm a 15 year old boy from small town USA and I'm currently a freshman in high school (I missed my previous school's cutoff date which is why I'm older). The school I went to for nine years (it was a K-8 school) was rather small, having a total of about 270 kids give or take a few. My class had been the largest my school ever had and had a whopping 38 people. Very small. After eighth grade we go to a cooperative school in the next town over which has about 1100 people. Now, some of my friends at my old school played a lot of sports and had friends from their travel soccer or football team so they had friends from other towns, and I never really enjoyed those sports so I never had that advantage of knowing at least a few people from other towns. Also, I don't have the same classes with the same people all day long so it seems harder to develop close relationships with people.
So basically I'm about halfway through the year and I'm not entirely sure I have any real friends at this point. I'm certainly friendly with a bunch of people, but I'm not entirely sure when someone passes the threshold separating "friendly acquaintance" and "friend".
So I think I'm asking about two questions
Also yeah I get this may not be too "deep" or whatever but I can't think of anywhere else to ask this.
I'm a 15 year old boy from small town USA and I'm currently a freshman in high school (I missed my previous school's cutoff date which is why I'm older). The school I went to for nine years (it was a K-8 school) was rather small, having a total of about 270 kids give or take a few. My class had been the largest my school ever had and had a whopping 38 people. Very small. After eighth grade we go to a cooperative school in the next town over which has about 1100 people. Now, some of my friends at my old school played a lot of sports and had friends from their travel soccer or football team so they had friends from other towns, and I never really enjoyed those sports so I never had that advantage of knowing at least a few people from other towns. Also, I don't have the same classes with the same people all day long so it seems harder to develop close relationships with people.
So basically I'm about halfway through the year and I'm not entirely sure I have any real friends at this point. I'm certainly friendly with a bunch of people, but I'm not entirely sure when someone passes the threshold separating "friendly acquaintance" and "friend".
So I think I'm asking about two questions
- How do you know someone is a friend rather than a friendly acquaintance
- How exactly would you define friend
Also yeah I get this may not be too "deep" or whatever but I can't think of anywhere else to ask this.
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