What makes a friend ?
According to the dictionary a friend is "a person attached by feelings of affection or personal regard". If this statement is taken as fact, then that would mean that you would be able to depend on said friends. You would know that if you just wanted to get out the house you could call this person. If you wanted to hang in the house, but not alone, you could call them. If you're upset or mad or happy you can call them. To vent. To cry. To scream of joy. If it's your birthday, friends would make plans to hang out with you, without you having to ask.
But what about when you think you have friends, and one of the forementioned events come up and they aren't there for you? Does that negate all the other things they have been there for? Does that change the moments they were your shoulder? The times they were your lunch buddy? Or a Netflix bum with you? Do you have the right to feel like you don't actually have a true friend,if they aren't there for all of it?
What about when you get so upset that you can't help but cry, but when you decide you want to call someone to make yourself feel better, you realize you have nobody you really want to call.
Is that how you know, you really are alone? That the people you considered friends are just a figment of your imagination? Or perhaps just an exaggeration in your head? Something you made into something to make yourself feel less alone in the world?
How are you supposed to know what a friend is? Because from where I'm standing, if a friend is someone "attached by personal regard", they would care about your feelings. Right?
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