A friend is someone who botheres to approach you and wants to spend time with you.
A friend is someone who cares about you, maybe this is too far but their problems are your problems.
Similarly they are someone you share your life with if you dont see a friend for a long time are you still friends is a real working sense?
This is enough to be getting on with, a friend shares your life and as such is qantity of shared experience what makes and breaks friendships surely not, what about people you hate and spend lots of time with so quality of time is important too. For someone to want to share your life they are almost definitely going to have to share a similar life for you to ever be able to compatibly share your existance with each other.
There are many ways freinds share their lives, they share memories of what they've done so that the freind can build a picture of their week and also shared ideoligies and concepts. Shared secrets and experiences.
Maybe i ask too much but this kind of life sharing is true friendship. The telling of secrets its all important, to keep secrets and too leave a freind in the dark is not pleasnt. If you do not a certain over lap a sharing of lives then they are merly people you know.
Its this realisation that makes me sad, i`m perfectly willing to share my life but everyones too busy or already got enough friends, the number of people i truly share life with is small and that is sad. Worse still is to watch the way that the overlap slides and you loose and gain freinds but maybe thats another article to come.
I think i write this because i`m sad that more people do not want to share their life with me and do not want to share in mine ie i feel a sense of rejection by people overall being more interested in them selves. Recently i was talking to someone i knew and i pointed out how few people actively seek my company oh sure they calim to be my freinds but surely a true freind would want to spend time with you. There are so many degree's of freindship but the best freinds dont have to do much anything special they just have to be there, with you, to share you life to lessen the burdens and listen to you. To seek you out and spend time with you to value your freindship with them.
ps. This is something of an on going work - when i make a new site i`ll re-write and revise this.