Key Difference – Close Friend vs Best Friend
In life, relationships that we have with others have a great influence and impact on how we perceive and face different situations in life. Of the various relationships, friendship is something that we treasure all our life. When we speak of friends, close friends and best friends are two categories between which a key difference can be identified. A close friend is someone you rely on and can trust, but a best friend is a person with whom you share everything. The key distinction is that level of friendship shared by two best friends is greater than two close friends. Through this article let us examine some of the key qualities seen in close friends and best friends.
Who is a Close Friend?
A close friend is someone you rely on and can trust completely. In life, you can have close friends at different stages. For example in school, you may have had a number of friends with whom you have shared your happiness and sorrow. Then as you grow up, you may have found new friends in the university and even in work places whom you have become close to.
I once came to this Japanese restaurant in Singapore. It is not a fancy one (normal view inside a mall) but the foods are quite expensive. One of my friends had come to this restaurant before.
- Puntaa is a social betting app that allows friends to custom bet on just about anything, share and engage around those bets, and get paid through their mobile device. Users deposit funds into their account, add friends and challenge each other to bets on anything from the outcome of a sporting match to an inside joke.
- One of the simplest and oldest gambling activities between friends is making a bet on who can cut a deck of cards to a high card. Each player cuts the deck and whoever has the highest card wins the money. This is just like flipping a coin because each player has a 50% chance of cutting to a higher card.
Good Bets For Best Friends
The key characteristic of a close friend is that you can share anything with this person and feel completely comfortable in his or her presence. This is because a close friend does not judge or condescend but understands and comforts the friend. He or she is always there in difficult times and cares for the friend.
Who is a Best Friend?
A best friend is a person with whom you share everything. The key difference between a close friend and a best friend is that when something happens to you, the first person that you wish to share it with is your best friend. In this sense, in the friendship hierarchy, a best friend gains the highest position in comparison to a close friend.
Even in difficult situations, best friends are always there, comforting the friend and would literally do anything to make the friend happy. This is why in most cases best friends are like family to us. Best friends share a very deep understanding and know almost everything about their friend. They accept the friend for who he or she is and respects the person for this. Best friends are genuine and trustworthy as well. The love of a best friend is unconditional and can be considered as a bond that is truly invaluable.
Best Bets Between Friends
What is the difference between Close Friend and Best Friend?
Definitions of Close Friend and Best Friend:
Close Friend: A close friend is someone you rely on and can trust.
Best Friend: A best friend is a person with whom you share everything.
Characteristics of Close Friend and Best Friend:
Level of friendship:
Close Friend: Close friends share a strong bond.
Best Friend: Best friends share the strongest bond.
Number:
Close Friend: A person can have a number of close friends.
Best Friend: A person usually has a very limited number of best friends.
Image Courtesy:
1. Friends By Vaibhav Sharan [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
2. Two Friends in the woods By D. Sharon Pruitt from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, USA [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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That’s why was strange when my friend Jenn was dropping her daughter off at school last week and noticed a student wearing shorts. “Wait, it’s freezing out,” she said to her daughter while zipping up her jacket and pulling her hat over her head. “Does that kid have Hot Leg Syndrome or something?”
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I laughed when she told me this story because it reminded me of my college days when crazy bets were standard. I bet my roommate Dee a dollar he wouldn’t eat a nacho chip covered in Crisco (I lost), I entered a Sideburn-Off on who could grow the scraggliest muttonchops in a month (I lost), and I bet my friend Gillian she wouldn’t race around our cafeteria at full throttle and slide headfirst into our punnily-named drink station “Thirst Base.” (I lost, and thankfully the chocolate milk on tap wasn’t harmed.)
None of these bets made sense but they somehow made sense at the time.
The best crazy bets are like that.
Because we aren’t here forever and crazy bets add laughs to our days and our weeks. So what are you waiting for, betting geeks? It’s time to shake hands and enter a Beard-Off, it’s time to drop five on who’ll catch the kickoff, it’s time to steel your gaze for the Staring Contest Standoff. Yes, it’s time spin in circles fifty times the fastest, it’s time to see who’s after-dinner burp can be the nastiest, yes it’s time to tell the naysayers that crazy bets aren’t dumb, because it’s time for us all to recognize they’re part of the World Of
AWESOME!
Hello, Toronto! I’ll be touring the neighborhood all next week for The Book of (Holiday) Awesome launch. Hope to see you November 14th at Indigo Bay/Bloor, November 16th at Chapters Brampton, or November 19th at Chapters Oshawa!