Is it possible to have more than one best friend? I would say yes, and apparently so would one of the girls I met this week. I went to lunch with one of my friends and asked two girls sitting together if we could join them and they said that was fine. One of them seemed very excited to know us and was asking all kinds of questions. As we ate our meals, the two girls were talking to each other at the other end of the table and I over heard the one asking all the questions saying she was looking for another best friend. This seemed to shock her friend at first as she says that she thought they were best best friends. The girl explained that she was one of her best friends as well as a guy who I had not met yet, but they were all different types of best friends. She continued to explain the difference in their "best friend duties" and said that she wanted to find another person to be there for her and to be close with and who could do anything else that the other two couldn't do.
This interested me enough to write about in my blog because I feel it ties a lot of what I've been saying together. Here is someone who doesn't necessarily need anymore friends, only would like more. She wasn't putting her current friends down in any way, she was just looking for another person out there that she could connect with and have by her side. This post goes hand in hand with my last one in that having options is a good thing. Everyone should want to get out and have new experiences with new people and break out of their norms. It isn't always good to be dependent on the same one or two people in order for you to enjoy yourself, and whether or not you agree with saying you have a few best friends, I think everyone should be open-minded to this concept of not being afraid to get closer with new people.
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