define "friends".
as a dictionary says, "person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection."
suppose you were to join a new class, a new school, new people. Haven't we all been in that situation? assuming you did, how did you make "friends"? a question I asked myself: are we actually friends or are we strangers being nice to each other? or has some Good Samaritan called you "friend" and adopted you as one?
...is this the meaning of "introvert"?
But what I define as friend is just someone you can comfortably communicate with, most of the time, and think both of you can benefit from this bond (the benefit might not be that obvious).
I guess we'll all know when we have really good friends, when we can call those people our "friends".
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alien: an introvert's guide to social relations
HumorI speak as an introvert who does much too many mind experiments but never carries them out.
