Friendship

Okay, so the Easter holiday's have just finished here, which means back to College (boo!) but it also means seeing everybody I love (yayy!) My friends are such a big part of who I am - I love just being with them and spending time with them. There's something so amazing about just sitting and talking with someone for hours on end and I really love finding people I can do that with.

I have a lot of friends that I've met in a lot of different ways, like people I've met from message boards and concerts that I only get to talk to online or see really rarely, which I hate, and then there's people I know through college that I get to see every day, which I love. Irrespective of how I know them, they are all really special to me in lots of different ways and they're all really different people.

Somebody I'm quite close to me asked me a question for a video she's making the other week. It was "How do you choose your friends?" and that got my thinking, like is there one thing that actually... defines your choice in friends? I mean, I'd like to say 'no' and, as I said earlier, all of my friends are really quite different, but there is something, some common factor that all my friends have in common.

They all make me laugh. Now, you might think that that's a given, but for me that's such a huge, massive deal to me. We can have nothing in common but as long as they make me laugh, and, ever better, if I can make them laugh, then I'm happy.

A perfect example of this is my step-sister, when I met her we were completely different - she liked Slipknot and wore nothing but black and lace, I liked McFly and my wardrobe was filled with pink skirts. Yet we got on, really well. Now, were a lot similar but back then we had nothing in common. But she was funny, we had the same sense of humour and that's how we bonded (well, that and boys)
So, if it wasn't for humour being paramount in my friendships I wouldn't have such a good friend in Megan who is responsible for some of the biggest moments in my life.

I found that one question really interesting actually, so I'm going to ask it to you: Is there any way you choose your friends? Anything they have in common? Anything your friends must have or be able to do?