Question

[The Legendary Joe]

What makes a friend a friend, and what separates them from an acquaintance?

Surely there's a deal more respect and trust involved, but??Caring for them, and stuff, I'm not so good at that.

I've??got a good many people who say they're my friends, and there is indeed??trust between us, but I honestly don't know much of them aside from trivial things, and??I don't really care for them,??and if I do, it's usually for shallow, selfish reasons??like "oh, now I won't get my stuff back..."

I suppose my view on friendship was ruined when I was little and??my so called friends??ran off and snitched on me, I thought they were backstabbing caniving bastards, and needless to say, that friendship didn't really last long.??

All these TV shows and crap made me grow up with huge expectations for friendship and I was sorta let down with the crappy??lessons they taught me, so I guess I'm interested in how some of you would define the different levels of Friendship.