Writings #4 — An Intimate Friend
Written on March 15th, 2019
According to Cambridge Dictionary, intimate (adj) means being a close, personal friend or having a close, personal relationship. While according to Longman Dictionary, intimate (adj) means having an extremely close relationship. Even in some definitions, it is said that intimate has something to do with sexual relationships.
But in this paper, I would make it more general as an extremely close friend. Regarding to two definitions above, I would like to describe my own definition about an intimate friend as a very close friend to whom we share every personal thing about ourselves. Based on QnA in Quora, I found that there’s a small difference between an intimate friend and a close friend.
In our real life, I believe that everybody has both of these kinds of friend. We are truly close to both of them. We even share the same hobbies and interests. We spend most of the time together; we might also have known each other since a very long time.
But somehow, we don’t share everything that matters in our personal life including the deepest thoughts and feelings to both of them. We would just share it to one of them based on the intimacy and that person would be our intimate friend.
We would share our stories, thoughts, ambitions, even our feelings and personal problems to our intimate friends and they would do the same thing, because we know that we have very similar mindset and personality as them. We would see everything mostly in the same way, so we value something in the similar way.
We would also have the same ambition, so we cheer each other up in every possible way. We would ask each other for advice and discuss many things related to personal dreams and emotions, because we feel comfortable sharing those personal things to them. At some points, somehow, we feel more connected to them than our own family.
This intimate friend could be an opposite sex or vice versa. Very often we found an opposite-sex friend whom we think has a lot of things in common with us. Because of that, the connection between us grows stronger. We become closer once we realized that we had very similar emotions, interests and attitude in everything. But that’s it.
We don’t share any romantic point of view. If we have it, probably it would be a different thing—not as an intimate friend, but more likely as a soul mate. Some people have their intimate friends, some people have them as their soul mate.
In my experience, I have found four intimate friends who are all girls (‘cause I haven’t met my soul mate yet wkwk, hopefully someday soon I’ll find him Or he’ll find me). Two of them are my JHS mates and the other ones are my SHS and college mate. We’ve shared stories, thoughts, and feelings. We’d give advice for each other if it’s needed.
We are really close and connected. We share many things in common, as I mentioned above. Thus, an intimate friend is a better companion who gives you more meaning and thoughtfulness.
According to Cambridge Dictionary, intimate (adj) means being a close, personal friend or having a close, personal relationship. While according to Longman Dictionary, intimate (adj) means having an extremely close relationship. Even in some definitions, it is said that intimate has something to do with sexual relationships.
But in this paper, I would make it more general as an extremely close friend. Regarding to two definitions above, I would like to describe my own definition about an intimate friend as a very close friend to whom we share every personal thing about ourselves. Based on QnA in Quora, I found that there’s a small difference between an intimate friend and a close friend.
In our real life, I believe that everybody has both of these kinds of friend. We are truly close to both of them. We even share the same hobbies and interests. We spend most of the time together; we might also have known each other since a very long time.
But somehow, we don’t share everything that matters in our personal life including the deepest thoughts and feelings to both of them. We would just share it to one of them based on the intimacy and that person would be our intimate friend.
We would share our stories, thoughts, ambitions, even our feelings and personal problems to our intimate friends and they would do the same thing, because we know that we have very similar mindset and personality as them. We would see everything mostly in the same way, so we value something in the similar way.
We would also have the same ambition, so we cheer each other up in every possible way. We would ask each other for advice and discuss many things related to personal dreams and emotions, because we feel comfortable sharing those personal things to them. At some points, somehow, we feel more connected to them than our own family.
This intimate friend could be an opposite sex or vice versa. Very often we found an opposite-sex friend whom we think has a lot of things in common with us. Because of that, the connection between us grows stronger. We become closer once we realized that we had very similar emotions, interests and attitude in everything. But that’s it.
We don’t share any romantic point of view. If we have it, probably it would be a different thing—not as an intimate friend, but more likely as a soul mate. Some people have their intimate friends, some people have them as their soul mate.
In my experience, I have found four intimate friends who are all girls (‘cause I haven’t met my soul mate yet wkwk, hopefully someday soon I’ll find him Or he’ll find me). Two of them are my JHS mates and the other ones are my SHS and college mate. We’ve shared stories, thoughts, and feelings. We’d give advice for each other if it’s needed.
We are really close and connected. We share many things in common, as I mentioned above. Thus, an intimate friend is a better companion who gives you more meaning and thoughtfulness.
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