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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.

I didn't have a "best friend" as a kid. I don't think I ever have. I say I have one now, but that person merely knows the most about me. The person who knows the most about me and the person I feel closest to, where it is effortless, are two different people, and I just call the one with the same gender as me my best friend because that's more kosher and I don't know what the heck is going on with the other one.

People like to fret about children and how they are raised, every little detail, but as long as kids have the unconditional love of their parents or parent and are raised in a consistent manner, they'll turn out fine. I don't get the obsession with hours spent inside vs. hours spent outside, introversion vs. extroversion, how many activities is too many, homeschooling vs. public school vs. private school, rural environment vs. urban environment, any of it. A kid raised attending public school in the suburbs who has eighteen friends and a kid raised on a farm in the middle of nowhere, homeschooled with only his siblings as friends, can be indistinguishable from each other as adults in society as long as their parents love them unconditionally and consistently enforce rules and guidelines. Everything else is insignificant.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

nicely put Jael, i agree completely.


i had a best friend up until 7th grade. he was 2 years older then me and when he went to high school we kind of fell apart. through most of high school i had friends but none that i would consider best friends (outside of a couple girlfriends). it was the same through a portion of college. then, oddly enough, one of my friends who ive known for years but never really saw outside of school or baseball (who lived all of a 3 minute walk from me) asked me to be a sub for his softball team. pretty much since that point ive pretty much seen him in some regard at least once a week.

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

Personally, I find cliques to be really annoying, and always preferred to hang out in small groups or one on one.



Wait, are they trying to keep kids from making any friends? I remember hating elementary school because I never ended up in the same classes as the friends I had made the year before so I almost never kept many friends year to year.


This article smacks of adults sticking their faces into shit way too much and not letting kids be kids.

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I always had one or two best friends every year of school. Pretty much hanging out with people from the boards is the first time I've ever hung out with a group of people and felt comfortable.

In high school I had a social circle I was sort of in, but I was more close friends with one or two and acquaintances with the rest and only "hung out" with them because you have to sit at a lunch table with someone.

In college I hung out with my friends Peter, Michelle, and Mike pretty exclusively, and then with my senior year roommate Dehaas, and our friend Lee.

Never ever was a group person, and don't really intend to be.


Y'all are pretty peachy though.

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My best friend and I have been friends since 7th grade. I have a lot of close friends, but Scott will always be my BFFF...best fucking friends forever!

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Sensationalist news and 24 hour news cycles has done the most damage IMO.
All we hear about is violence on the streets, child molesters and kidnappers.

Parents are afraid to let their kids roam free around strangers like we did when I was a kid.
Our communities are breaking down because trust in the general public is gone. So parents feel it necessary to shuttle their kids everywhere and supervise them at all times.

It's a shame.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

I swear in elementary school they purposely tried to separate you from your friends, bastards.

They definitely did.
My Mom was a teacher and both of my best friends mothers were teachers so they had some pull in the classroom...we were never in the same classes until High school.

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Hold my beer and watch this...