Friends are people that might help you when you need help, people that might expect you to help them when they need someone. Truth be told strangers can be more helpful than these so called friends. To be a friend is to be there not only for fun but through the bitter parts of life Be able to share your only remaining meal, the last penny in your pocket, to give up your time without hesitation without thinking of anything in return. Strangers can be more a friend than that buddy of yours, for if they help they don't crave for any gratifications, they don't expect anything from you. Some may even give up their life for you, not knowing a single thing about you. But your friend are they ready to do such a thing...more than likely not. So ask yourself are you truly a friend or just someone that seems to be one. For me I try my best to be one for to say that I am truly a friend would constitute to a very elaborate lie. A lie that you may or may not find out when you die that I never lifted a muscle to try and save you when you were dying. I am a friend and so are you but to what extent we may never know. DGZ