Who is your BEST friend in the whole wide world and why?

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 8:34pm

So, who is your best friend? How did you meet them? Why are they your friend? Share some stories about them.

You don't have to name them.

Posted: 10/11/05 at 8:38pm

A message board moderator has no friends.

Only acquaintances who possess varying degrees of tolerance.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 8:48pm

Her name is Annette, and we lived in the same apartment building in San Diego, and both broke up with people at the same time.......and commiserated with each other. As she lives in Florida I rarely see her, miss her mucho, and thank God that she is my friend.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 8:51pm

I have two - one is my babymama (the mother of my godson), and the other is my trusty and trusted rock in this crazy world - she knows my heart. I met both at work - the first one 11 years ago, and the second 9 years ago. They couldn't be more different from one another!

Updated On: 10/11/05 at 08:51 PM

[etoile]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 8:54pm

Awe sucks, Jose', I'll be your friend. I recognize that dry sense of humor that you possess.

And a man with a delete button, who can resist such power?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:00pm

I have the most wonderful, beautiful, amazing best friend on the planet. We actually met online 3 years ago playing a dumb internet game. We clicked immediately. We lived 900 miles apart. She got me involved in the field she works in and helped me move 70 miles from her. I owe her more than I could ever pay her back.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:07pm

My best friend and I met in the 1st grade. We love to do things together like get dirty outdoors, run around, and just have fun.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:07pm

I have two. I met one 8 years ago and one 5 years ago. We didn't become good friends until about 3 years ago though. We all went to the same elementary school and now go to different junior highs. Well, one of them skipped a grade and is now in high school. We are all so different and they are both amazing. I couldn't live without them!!

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:11pm

Aw, gee, etoile. Would you really be my friend?

You don't just want to be my friend for my delete button, do you? Updated On: 10/11/05 at 09:11 PM

[milliemarch]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:11pm

My best friend's name is Giulia(pronounced Julia haha about thinks its pronounced with a "g"). We met 2 summers ago through a mutual friend, and then did 'Grease' together in the Spring, and talked a lot online and kept saying "we should totally hang out" and never did. Then, this past summer, she was "Lily" in "Annie" and I was a Boylen sister and we finally became friends. Now we talk on the phone everyday, see eachother a couple of times a week, etc. And we're going to NYC together in December! She's graduating this spring though so I won't get to see her often after this year which is soo depressing.

[Allie]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:24pm

I met my best friend in grade six, but at the time we didn't really click. In fact, I thought he was pretty annoying. We were just kind of acquaintances until grade nine, when we had a couple of classes together. We got closer as the years went on, and I think the time we were closest was around high school graduation in June of 2004. Now we're at different universities, about a six or seven hour bus ride apart. He's still the one who knows me the best, and I love him more than I can even say.

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:32pm

My father is my best friend. The most incredible man I've ever known, or ever will know!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:34pm

There are usually a few people I refer to as my closest friends, or even best friend. But if pressed...we were suitmates for 6 weeks last year, then I got way too stressed out and left the University. We still barely talk compared to how much I talk to some of the people here, but we just connect. In our dorm, while we were supposed to be doing HW, we'd get into some 2-hour philisophical discussion, and I think our friendship was cemented when I left. The few times we talk we squeal and end every conversation w/ a big "I love you" and even have started referring to each other as soulmates(if only both of us were gay...) But yeah, I deeply love her.

[KelRel]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:37pm

My husband is my best friend. He and I have been friends since I was 15 and he has been there for me through so much in my life when no one else was there for me. He knows everything about me, all my secrets and all the skeletons in my closet and he still loves me. How much better can it get? I am a very very lucky lady.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:40pm

My best friend is my avatar. *point*

We met at Lend Me a Tenor auditions...it was just a friendly "hello". But, about two weeks later, my mom and I actually had dinner at where he works (He's a strolling singer, I guess you could say). We all talked about musical theatre. It was the first time in my life where I actually met and talked to someone outside of BWW that was a musical theatre freak. Throughout rehearsals, we'd discuss various musicals, and also, we'd look at this big Broadway musicals book that someone left behind. He also has a gigantic heart, too.

We're basically friends because we both have a passion for musical theatre, and plus, we love each other a lot. It's always joking, laughing, and one humongous hug every time we see each other.

Story time!

On opening night, I pulled him aside in the sound booth to tell him thank you and all this other stuff. It was sort of an emotional experience, you know? Anyway, I also told him thank you for the most wonderful friendship I've ever had. We hugged for quite a while, and I cried.

Lend Me a Tenor is long gone, but he and I keep in close touch.

[vbplayer]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:44pm

My best friend is Dave, he lives in Las Vegas. We became friends in High School. 1979. We were best friends. Then I came out to him. He actually got pissed at me. He said that he didn't care that I was gay. He cared that I didn't tell him sooner. What a guy. I spent many great times with Dave and his family through out the years. Bonded always, (never sexual...ever). His friendship meant too much. Always visited him while he went to ISU. Always cherished our friendship. And kept in contact .. always. (I don't have enough room to explain what we went through)

Long story made very short.

My mother died August 2001.

My father died in 2003.

I never heard a word from my "best friend" and he knew about both.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you all for the therapy session.
(not sure why I decided to divulge this thorn in my side)

Thanks for understanding.

Ed
vbplayer

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:46pm

I'm lucky enough to have two best friends. One of them I married - nothing better than spending the rest of your life with your best friend. The other bf is a man I met two weeks before my wedding - he worked with my husband. We both shared a love of theater and music and ended up working together as actors/directors/producers (we switched roles)for over 25 years. We've been lucky to share each other's lives and we've been more like family than friends (he's my daughter's Godfather). He's been ill and has been through some very bad times in the past two years, but we have stuck it out together. I know he'd do the same for me. I'm lucky to have loved and been loved by two wonderful men.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 9:52pm

My younger sister is my best friend. She knows me better than anyone in the world (with the possible exception of my husband, my other best friend). Unfortunatly we only get to see each other about twice a year, I live in NYC she lives in LA, but hopefully she'll be moving back to the east coast next fall.

My husband is the other person I cannot do without. There are no words to describe what he means to me. Updated On: 10/11/05 at 09:52 PM

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 10:29pm

Her name is Diana and we met at the age of 4 when she moved in next door. I was in front of my house on the sidewalk playing My Little Poney and she walked over and said, "hey, wanna be my friend?" I said "sure." and 15 years later ,the rest is history

Posted: 10/11/05 at 10:31pm

My best friend is a woman a few years older than I am - and her relationaship to me is what I would imagine having an older sibling would be like (I'm the oldest in our blood family.) We have known each other for a little over 20 years, and share every aspect of our lives with each other.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 10:56pm

<-- myself on the left, best friend on the right (right before prom)

my best friend is Pauline. We met for the first time in 5th grade when we were both new to our school (she had moved from Summit, NJ to chatham, where we both still live, and I had moved from England.) We didn;t really hang out that often in 5th grade but after that, people always knew us as Andrea and Pauline. (our birthdays were 4 days apart.) Friendship went all the way to high school and it is still there. But, now that we are in separate colleges, it's hard to get together. And i have tried to call but I always got her voice mail and i thought she would get sick of me leaving messages all the time so I have stopped. Haven't talked to her for about 2 or 3 weeks now. Really miss her. *crying now*

Haven't cried in a long time (actually, few weeks ago, but that is long for me. lol). But I'm glad i have posted this cause I am now remembering all our good times. Maybe I'll start up writing our spoof on Lord of the Rings again.

Thanks gav, for creating this thread.

Updated On: 10/11/05 at 10:56 PM

[Taryn]

Posted: 10/11/05 at 11:57pm

Her name is Christine. I met her in ninth grade a month or so after we started school. I had just moved to Pennsylvania, and by second semester she was my best friend there. By sophomore year she was my best friend in the world. So much about us is the same, but so much is different at the same time. Our senses of humor click like nobody's business. She's an extrovert while I'm an introvert and is just much better at socializing and dealing with people. We are always there for each other. I miss her like CRAZY now that we've started college--especially since she's going in Texas, I'm going in New York, and both our families are moving from the town we went to high school in. I'm trying to get her to visit sometime in the summer because I now live about thirty minutes outside NYC in New Jersey.

[CJR]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 12:47am

Im pretty lucky.... I have 3.

Jen-- she and I grew up together (about 4 blocks away from each other) and went to school together middle and high school (I went to a private elementary). She's the kind of friend you can call at 4am or whenever you need her and you know she'll always be there, no matter what it is. And if she cant find a way to directly help you or be there for you, she'll find someone who can. She's one of the few genuinely selfless people in the world. We were just roommating on her dad's boat, but she moved to FL last week and I miss her immensely.

Ashley-- She and I met at day camp when we were 8 years old. We hit it off immediately and became instant friends... always swim buddies during free swim and whatnot. Wherever you saw Ashley, you saw Heather and vice versa. We were seperated for middle school, but come high school we reconnected and have been absolutely inseperable ever since. We've been there for each other through deaths, breakups, new jobs, graduations and everything inbetween. We were nicknamed double trouble at a young age and frighteningly enough, the nickname still fits. We're so much the same yet so different, but we're the perfect balance for each other. We can be on the phone for hours at a time, laughing, talking and joking about anything, everything and nothing at all. Ash keeps me grounded where I cant do so myself and I do the same for her. After my most recent breakup, I placed one minute and a half phone call to her saying I needed her and 25 minutes later she was sitting in my bedroom with chocolate, hugging me. Now THAT's what best friends are made of.

LM -- he and I met almost 6 years ago. He was working for a show I had a friend in and another mutual friend introduced us. I guess you could say he's an ex of sorts... but at the same time not really. He and I have this connection I cant even begin to explain. Not even Ash or Jen know me (or ever will know me) the way he does. He anticipates my every need before I vocalize them.. knows what Im going to say before I say it and can answer the question in my head before I even ask it. One phone call to him can instantly calm me down, bring me back to earth and get me focused again. He's got the abilty to fluster me AND make me laugh like no other person Ive ever known. We've been there for each other through so much and frankly I am a better woman because of him. He taught me what it is to truly and unconditionally love someone -- amongst other things -- and for that I will always love him and I will always be incredibly grateful. I might not see him or speak to him as often as I like, but he's the friend who's always in my heart and ever present with me.


Thanks gav, for starting this thread. I really needed this kind of smile today. Writing about each of them brought back some really happy memories

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 12:47 AM

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 12:55am

Hm... my BEST friend, JustIn, and I met almost three years ago. While it might not seem that long, we've been through a lot together. We even had a huge fight over a year ago, didn't talk for a few months, and slowly but surely found each other again. We share pretty much everything about each other, and don't BS each other at all. When I need to be told something, he's the one to do it. And I tell him. I am very grateful to have him in my life. He even has my secondary power of attorney, that's how much I trust him.

[Allie]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 1:01am

Yeah, gav, thanks for this thread! It's wonderful to read all of these stories about friendship and get a little emotional.

For me, this thread and the National Coming Out Day thread went hand in hand, because my friend came out to me last spring. For these two reasons, I sent him an email this evening to let him know I was thinking about him.