The first blog of many - BFF stuff.

Well hello there.

Usually I would write on Facebook with the desire to share my thoughts to my friends. However, I don't find it particularly satisfying. So, here I am with my first attempt of putting myself on display to the World Wide Web. I fully expect that I will not actually have a cult of devout readers...or any readers at all...but I can't help but revel the thought that someone I don't know somewhere will read my blog and smile.

Anyway, enough of that coma-inducing intro crap. On to the real business of the day.

Do you have a best friend? Do you have more than one? Do you despise the term "best friend" for its sickly sweet, vomiting-ly implication of matching friendship bracelets?

If you agree with the last statement, I'd quite like to speak to you since I don't think anyone I know understands or shares my hatred for the phrase. I've got used to it since I've had a best friend or two, mainly because I can't think of anything to say to replace it. Everything else just sounds like you're dating them. "Close friends", for instance, personally conjures up images of "not-so-secret-but-they-think-they're-invisible" fuck buddies in my boggling mind.

I can't stand it if I go to a restaurant - almost always TGI's - when I have to say "a table for two". I'm rather paranoid as it is, I don't need to think that people might actually believe me and my best friend are shagging each other. Ew. I know it's silly, pretty pathetic in fact...but I just can't help it. Louise says it's because I'm a closet homosexual, but (before you all agree with that statement) it's really not true.

So, what are the qualities you need to possess to be a best friend to someone? I can’t speak for everyone, but in my experience (Which must be about 2/3 years now) the following points are what I believe to be true. Louise will probably disagree and slap me for being stupid, but that’s the way our friendship works.

- Sharing the same interest in silly things, and the ability to talk loudly about them on public transport. Being silly 24/7 basically.
- Being able to find ourselves in sometimes quite surreal moments at night. Pigeons, farting chavs etc.
- Chatting constantly and repeating previous conversations quite frequently…without getting too bored.
- Gossiping. You’re really not a girl if you don’t enjoy some juicy news about someone you love to hate.
- Wandering around aimlessly not actually achieving anything except for sore feet.
- Bitching about tourists, people on the tube, stupid people and people we don’t know whatsoever.
- Our love for Starbucks, but hatred of the mothers who take up all the space during the day.
- Those little private jokes. It’s not a good experience for those around us, but once we start giggling…it can be very, very hard to stop us. Especially if snakes are involved. We would explain but you just wouldn’t get it.

I could go on, but I don’t want to bore you. Hopefully it hasn’t already, and that you are still reading this wonder of a blog.
Back to the sickly sweet vomiting-ly friendship bracelets statement. Once I said that I’d never have a best friend because I believed it was childish. I honestly think I was so in opposition to “best friends” because I was surrounded by cliques and was never part of one. I was a drifter at school, moving from one set of friends to another, but never truly someone’s best buddy. I don’t regret it though, if I did have one back then…I might not have been friends with Louise. I highly doubt that for reasons I won’t go into…ok, because she’s just better than everyone else. Sorry, you can all slap me for that if you wish.

In conclusion, I believe everyone should have a best friend. Someone who you can turn to, ask a question and receive a truthful response. “Do you like my new hair colour?” “No, it brings out the redness of your face.” =D

Not even my mother would say that to me. My sister would but she's special.

I will now leave you all with the following quote:

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one." ~ C.S. Lewis

Goodnight peeps xoxo