{"id":293,"date":"2006-07-09T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/09\/friendly-behaviour\/"},"modified":"2006-07-09T01:48:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T20:18:17","slug":"friendly-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2006\/07\/friendly-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a &#8220;friend&#8221; about people leaving the country they&#8217;ve spent their whole life in, and settling down in an alien nation, and he remarked how difficult it would be to leave all the friendships behind. <\/p>\n<p>That got me thinking.&nbsp; It occurred to me that some of my &#8220;close&#8221; friends are people who live two continents away! &nbsp;With others, many of whom live just a few blocks away, I don&#8217;t seem to share that much anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Friends come in so many shapes and sizes, it would be interesting to try and list down all the possible types one could think of, wouldn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; So, here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Best friends &#8211; (Almost) two bodies one soul<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Close friends &#8211; People you can depend on, and share stuff with<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Good friends &#8211; Folks you can hang out with, have sleep-overs with<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Party friends &#8211; You know?&nbsp; People you party with!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Close acquaintances &#8211; You know something about them \/ You share a common past<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Neighbourhood chums &#8211; That&#8217;s where the term &#8220;friendly neighbourhood&#8221; comes from!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Batch mates &#8211; Friends from your school\/college (includes your sibling&#8217;s friends too)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Work Buddies &#8211; 9 to 5 (or whatever your work hours!)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hobby friends &#8211; Bowling, philately, gym&#8230; whatever you both dig<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Intellectual friends &#8211; On the same wavelength; People you can talk with for hours at end<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Friends in need &#8211; People you go to when you get into trouble (financial or otherwise)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Fake friends &#8211; You know, people who are not really your friends<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Important friends &#8211; Friends in high places (they may be your father&#8217;s friends to begin with)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Phonebook Pals &#8211; Only an entry on your SIM card&#8230; waiting for the next update of phone number!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>And finally, there&#8217;s my favourite type : <em>Soulmate<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I miss out any thing?&nbsp; Feel free to contribute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a &#8220;friend&#8221; about people leaving the country they&#8217;ve spent their whole life in, and settling down in an alien nation, and he remarked how difficult it would be to leave all the friendships behind.<\/p>\n<p>That got me thinking.  It occurred to me that some of my &#8220;close&#8221; friends are people who live two continents away!  With others, many of whom live just a few blocks away, I don&#8217;t seem to share that much anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Friends come in so many shapes and sizes, it would be interesting to try and list down all the possible types one could think of, wouldn&#8217;t it?  So, here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,10],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}