How similar to you is your best/ closest friend?
Was just curious about what people say about this.
Personally I'm quite different to my best friend. I'm quite a quiet person, I enjoy socialising and can be talkative but generally just prefer peace and quiet and I love being alone. My best friend is the opposite - she's the type to invite someone over every evening. I stayed with her for a while and it drove me a bit insane, the fact someone was sleeping over every night, when I just wanted peace! We get along like a house on fire though, and I consider her my best friend because we share similar interests, have a very similar sense of humour (something which I value a lot) and I feel I can trust her and we can talk about anything and everything. Personality-wise though, as I said, we're pretty dissimilar.
What about everyone else?
Personally I'm quite different to my best friend. I'm quite a quiet person, I enjoy socialising and can be talkative but generally just prefer peace and quiet and I love being alone. My best friend is the opposite - she's the type to invite someone over every evening. I stayed with her for a while and it drove me a bit insane, the fact someone was sleeping over every night, when I just wanted peace! We get along like a house on fire though, and I consider her my best friend because we share similar interests, have a very similar sense of humour (something which I value a lot) and I feel I can trust her and we can talk about anything and everything. Personality-wise though, as I said, we're pretty dissimilar.
What about everyone else?
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I'm quite similar to my close friends in music styles, interests and two of them personality wise, however one of my besties has a personality that is kinda the polar opposite of mine 
My best friend is wayy more extroverted than myself but we get on really well. Thinking about it, nearly all my friends are extroverts (wheras i'm an introvert) lol
I'm pretty different to both of my best friends but we get along really well.
A: We're completely different in everything, I can't even think of one single similarity between us. We've been best friends since we were 6 or so and we still get along really well.
R: We're different in pretty much everything except humour but we get along really well. We met when we were around 10/11 but we only got to know each other at around 14/15 and now we're really close.
A: We're completely different in everything, I can't even think of one single similarity between us. We've been best friends since we were 6 or so and we still get along really well.
R: We're different in pretty much everything except humour but we get along really well. We met when we were around 10/11 but we only got to know each other at around 14/15 and now we're really close.
My best friend and I have been friends for nearly fifteen years, and still love each other to bits and pieces. We both love animals, crack jokes that have us laughing until it hurts, are loyal to the ones we love (including each other) and are quite laid back and patient. We can finish each other's sentences all the time. Everyone jokes that we're twins separated at birth, and we've never argued. However, she has a totally different dress style and music taste, and wheras I'm off to uni in September and didn't struggle at school, she's had to work damn hard to get where she is now, as she struggled a lot with school (learning disabilities) and personal struggles, but she's now doing very well doing a Level 3 course at college. And do you know what? I'm so, so proud of her and everything she's achieved and to call her my best friend and I reckon she's going to be a lifelong friend.
I have two best friends(and lots of really close friends but I am not quite that close)
A: She is a complete extrovert, bubbly funny and tab bit selfish with other but with us she is very generous umm she is the type of person who is really colourful, impulsive crazy but also very kind and considerate. she is like the mother hen to us,t he person we always come to for advice.
B: She is an introvert, incredibly good willed just the sweetest person you have ever met, a little bit too naive but she is maturing. She is very generous and only opens up to a few people but she holds them dearly to her. I feel kind of protective over her like she is a bit fragile and has gone through alot.
I am a middle between these two not an extrovert or introvert, I kind of balance their two extremes. I love them both they are like my sisters, we finish each others sentences, and a few glances can convey a whole conversation, we have the same interests but different personalities
A: She is a complete extrovert, bubbly funny and tab bit selfish with other but with us she is very generous umm she is the type of person who is really colourful, impulsive crazy but also very kind and considerate. she is like the mother hen to us,t he person we always come to for advice.
B: She is an introvert, incredibly good willed just the sweetest person you have ever met, a little bit too naive but she is maturing. She is very generous and only opens up to a few people but she holds them dearly to her. I feel kind of protective over her like she is a bit fragile and has gone through alot.
I am a middle between these two not an extrovert or introvert, I kind of balance their two extremes. I love them both they are like my sisters, we finish each others sentences, and a few glances can convey a whole conversation, we have the same interests but different personalities
I have two best friends(and lots of really close friends but I am not quite that close)
A: She is a complete extrovert, bubbly funny and tab bit selfish with other but with us she is very generous umm she is the type of person who is really colourful, impulsive crazy but also very kind and considerate. she is like the mother hen to us,t he person we always come to for advice.
B: She is an introvert, incredibly good willed just the sweetest person you have ever met, a little bit too naive but she is maturing. She is very generous and only opens up to a few people but she holds them dearly to her. I feel kind of protective over her like she is a bit fragile and has gone through alot.
I am a middle between these two not an extrovert or introvert, I kind of balance their two extremes. I love them both they are like my sisters, we finish each others sentences, and a few glances can convey a whole conversation, we have the same interests but different personalities
A: She is a complete extrovert, bubbly funny and tab bit selfish with other but with us she is very generous umm she is the type of person who is really colourful, impulsive crazy but also very kind and considerate. she is like the mother hen to us,t he person we always come to for advice.
B: She is an introvert, incredibly good willed just the sweetest person you have ever met, a little bit too naive but she is maturing. She is very generous and only opens up to a few people but she holds them dearly to her. I feel kind of protective over her like she is a bit fragile and has gone through alot.
I am a middle between these two not an extrovert or introvert, I kind of balance their two extremes. I love them both they are like my sisters, we finish each others sentences, and a few glances can convey a whole conversation, we have the same interests but different personalities
Not at all. I despise her.
Completely different
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Original post by suzylemonade
Not at all. I despise her.
so she isn't your friend then
Friend i'm going uni with in some ways were similar
Other college friend are completely into the same stuff
Other college friend are completely into the same stuff
I'm the same as most people on here - my "best friend" and I are different in lots of ways, but similar too!
I think that's what makes you work as best friends...you have enough in common that you understand each other and enjoy each other's company, but different enough that you balance each other's temperaments. Differences allow you to push and challenge each other, and it helps to have somebody who thinks a bit differently to you to help with any problems you have.
I think that's what makes you work as best friends...you have enough in common that you understand each other and enjoy each other's company, but different enough that you balance each other's temperaments. Differences allow you to push and challenge each other, and it helps to have somebody who thinks a bit differently to you to help with any problems you have.
Original post by JPL9457
so she isn't your friend then
She thinks we are. The rest of the world think we are. I have no choice
Ooh. I think we're quite similar but different - haha, sorry!
Different in certain aspects such as I can have a quick temper and I flare up at injustice so freaking quick! However he's really calm, logic and reasonable. As soon as I get angry, all reason and logic flies through the window. I look at short term solutions and he always thinks long term.
Similar in our humour and banter. We can go on for hours and we bounce off each other ridiculously perfectly well. We're prone to a bit of sarcasm too! Extremely loyal to the ones we love and we have similar music/TV tastes for the most part but we have our own preferences. I'm so attuned to him (and vice versa). Often we can look at each other and not feel the need to speak because we know exactly what the other is thinking .. Yes that's probably sad but oh well!
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Different in certain aspects such as I can have a quick temper and I flare up at injustice so freaking quick! However he's really calm, logic and reasonable. As soon as I get angry, all reason and logic flies through the window. I look at short term solutions and he always thinks long term.
Similar in our humour and banter. We can go on for hours and we bounce off each other ridiculously perfectly well. We're prone to a bit of sarcasm too! Extremely loyal to the ones we love and we have similar music/TV tastes for the most part but we have our own preferences. I'm so attuned to him (and vice versa). Often we can look at each other and not feel the need to speak because we know exactly what the other is thinking .. Yes that's probably sad but oh well!
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My best friend is like my sister to me. I call her parents aunt and uncle and mine call her their second daughter <3 I can't imagine not being friends with her. I've known her since I was like 2 or something.
Superficially we are quite different. We have opposite music tastes, dress sense and like different films (except our united love of Disney!)
But personality wise we just click. We're not particularly similar, I'm shy and she can talk for England, but we just get each other. We have very similar views on the stuff that actually matters and our senses of humour are the same. Ammm yeah we just compliment each other well
Superficially we are quite different. We have opposite music tastes, dress sense and like different films (except our united love of Disney!)
But personality wise we just click. We're not particularly similar, I'm shy and she can talk for England, but we just get each other. We have very similar views on the stuff that actually matters and our senses of humour are the same. Ammm yeah we just compliment each other well
My best friend and I aren't very similar. We don't like most of the same movies/music/games and we have a very different sense of humour. I'm a complete introvert and he can't fathom how I need alone time. We have similar philosophies, I suppose, but there's very little else. But we just get on amazingly, and can spend hours upon hours with each other without problem.
My best friend and I are pretty similar. Our views/ideals on life are on the same wavelength and we think in a similar manner. However, our tastes in music, interests etc differ. He is slightly introverted whereas I am an extrovert with introvert tendencies so between us two he is talkative, loud and carefree but towards people he doesn't know/new people he's quite shy and quiet. I am the complete opposite.
My best mate annoys the ***k out of me on most days. When I cook in the kitchen and am busy concentrating he just has to open his mouth to say something irrelevant and my fishcake has crumbs fall on the table...I like my crumbs...don't like to see them on my table instead of my dinner plate now 
! He's very gooey. I really really really need my space. He's always...there! When I'm reading, hanging out with mates, working, why is he always here, when he has his own place 
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But other than that we have tonnes in common, like we both love sports, like to read the papers and plenty of books, love he radio, like to play video games, and watch a lot of television, text each other randomly and have picnics at Hyde Park...which is just me ending up snoring while I was reading a book
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Musically, we don't really have the same taste, because we were actually talking about this today, how the music he likes always gives me a headache for the first couple of seconds of the tracks but then because I like to keep an open mind because it is my best mate after all, I do end up liking the song...it was about a song off The Killers, I've still got "Mr. Brightside" on repeat
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He thinks I only like upbeat tunes, but that isn't true...I also like his eighties crap! How do we make the relationship work? I just let him sleep while I work away, with my feet on his head/back 
! I should be wearing my socks already...feet is getting cold...needs to be warm and comfy 
!
! He's very gooey. I really really really need my space. He's always...there! When I'm reading, hanging out with mates, working, why is he always here, when he has his own place ? But other than that we have tonnes in common, like we both love sports, like to read the papers and plenty of books, love he radio, like to play video games, and watch a lot of television, text each other randomly and have picnics at Hyde Park...which is just me ending up snoring while I was reading a book
! Musically, we don't really have the same taste, because we were actually talking about this today, how the music he likes always gives me a headache for the first couple of seconds of the tracks but then because I like to keep an open mind because it is my best mate after all, I do end up liking the song...it was about a song off The Killers, I've still got "Mr. Brightside" on repeat
! He thinks I only like upbeat tunes, but that isn't true...I also like his eighties crap
! How do we make the relationship work? I just let him sleep while I work away, with my feet on his head/back ! I should be wearing my socks already...feet is getting cold...needs to be warm and comfy !Quick Reply
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