Friends are the best. They hold you with distance, comfort you when you cry, with or without a shoulder depending on who's present. They sometimes apologise, but most probably without a kiss, unless drunk, then the apology is irrelevant anyway. They last a lifetime like marriage does. In fact sometimes every other connection seems bleak compared to the friendship. You can stay together with friends, you can even sleep with them, pun both intended and not, and there mustn't be strings attached, and you both mustn't have someone to go home to. Otherwise you'll destroy two or three friendships all at once. And friends are the best. Friends expect less of you, yet they support you, and show you the vision you chose, in case you forget or are momentarily blinded by situations. Just like your other half does, only thing is that most other halves, well they tend to be higher on the expectation scale, if my experience is right. I love my friends. I hope that I will marry a best friend and live rather happily with him. Do I wait for that opportunity now, or should I perhaps lower my hopes a little? Every other connection seems bleak.