True Friendship & False Acquaintances

Friend:

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friend noun.

A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement.
Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.


Word History: A friend is a lover, literally. The relationship between Latin amcus “friend� and am “I love� is clear, as is the relationship between Greek philos “friend� and phile “I love.� In English, though, we have to go back a millennium before we see the verb related to friend. At that time, frond, the Old English word for “friend,� was simply the present participle of the verb fron, “to love.� The Germanic root behind this verb is *fr-, which meant “to like, love, be friendly to.� Closely linked to these concepts is that of “peace,� and in fact Germanic made a noun from this root, *frithu-, meaning exactly that. Ultimately descended from this noun are the personal names Frederick, “peaceful ruler,� and Siegfried, �victory peace.� The root also shows up in the name of the Germanic deity Frigg, the goddess of love, who lives on today in the word Friday, “day of Frigg,� from an ancient translation of Latin Veneris dis, “day of Venus.�

How do you define true friendship. Well, I'm not sure how everyone defines it but my definition is this:

Someone to takes you for what you are.
Someone whom you trust with intimate details of your personal life
Someone whom listens to your complaints and problems
Someone whom sees your flaws, accepts them, tells you about them
Someone whom will go out of the way to help you
Someone whom you accept and share parts of your life with.
Someone whom you can be open and honest with.

And vice versa.

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ac·quain·tance noun.

Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship.
A relationship based on such knowledge: struck up an acquaintance with our new neighbor.
A person whom one knows.
Knowledge or information about something or someone: has a passing acquaintance with Chinese history.

Yeah, that's pretty much my definition too. Plenty of those have I.

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