What makes people friends?

Mutual understanding or at least making the effort. Sympathy, empathy and encouragement. Friends do not necessarily have to be copycats. Sometimes they have qualities that you admire because you are just lacking them. And in turn admire you for the qualities they do not have themselves.

Some kind of compensation if you wish. But not competition.

But of course there has to be mutual qualities in common otherwise you just would not click in the first place.

Sometimes friends tell you things about yourself you do not exactly want to hear but it is for your own good so call it constructive criticism. A friend of mine calls it "tough love". They can do it to you as long as they take it themselves though.

Taking time for you is caring.

Why some friends are forgotten ? Because people change, interests change, change their circle, people evolve and have to reinvent themselves at times and you realise you aren't in the same wavelength anymore. Of course it is best when it is kind of a mutual agreement, not necessarily spoken about but kind of understood anyway.

It is tougher when one feels they are still friends with so and so but the other person has just moved on.

"the one who is there when everyone else walks away" but forgot who said that.

I see a lot of people, and hardly any of them try to talk to me.

I think it's because everyone's in these tight cliques, and they don't like anyone who's not attractive or good looking, or smart.

I am only close to a few people, and sometimes, I feel as if they wish to be like everyone else. It's quite annoying.

I guess friends are people you know. Like, you know their intrests and hobbies, and they tolerate you and support you.

I think it is all chemistry. If someone makes you stop and listen to them, then of course, you will gravitate towards them. For me, it is honest people who have little to no use for games. They stand out in a crowd to me.

I usually gravitate towards people who make me laugh, smile, or care about me. its usually people that are similar to me in a way, and then there are people who r completely different from me that are my best friends..

for me it's support, time, confidence, comprehension.... and testing their loyalty (time, reciprocity, etc).... compatibility, common things, i don't know exactly what makes them friends... i guess is just feeling the friendship n love... i also think that many people don't know how to be friends, at the end i think we're all alone with different grades of social skills.

sometimes you have the same interests, they make you laugh,having children the same age,some times there is unexplained reason why you like someone, knowledge. I'm drawn to people that make me laugh, have knowledge,treat me with kindness. I dislike gossipy people