I've learnt something in these past few weeks, that... I didn't even contemplate before hand. But it's this lesson that I've learnt, which I believe has aided me in the future of choosing friends more carefully.

friend
n.

1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
3. A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
4. One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement.
5. Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker

There's a few key words in the descrption of a friend. I believe the most important one is [b]trust[/b]. Without it, your friendship is nothing more than a stranger talking to a stranger.

Hell, talking to a stranger, you wouldn't tell them half the things you would percieve as "alright" of telling your friend.

But how do you become friends? How does the person transfer from being just another stranger, to being a friend. And can that role be reversed? Can someone who knows you, your feelings and may well know your secrets, become a stranger again?

You see I don't like calling people friends, unless I know that what-ever I tell them is, only 2 peoples business. Mine, and theirs. But when they break this unwritten rule of friendship, what do you call them? Backstabbers? Slags? Cunts? All these words are just words. There's nothing you can do to describe the breaking of trust.

All you can do... Is pretened you never knew them.

They're a stranger to you...