You can't be my friend if you are "NORMAL"

I just got thinking of people that I am the closest to, and they reciprocate well... to realize that...

I have a friend who drove 4000 kms to relocate
I have friend who gives me credit for all the chichorapanti she does
I have a friend who frowns because it takes more muscles to frown than smile and that is his way of working out
I have a friend who is critical about use of English irrespective of how and when it is used
I have a friend whose enthusiasm about what all she wants to do after her Ph.D can be intimidating at times
I have a friend who one fine day just leaves his job and goes back home without a plan in place
I have a friend who works with an NGO over any other career options because of the small difference it would make to the world
I have a friend who believes in the not so obvious more than the rest of the world I know
I have a friend who I connected with after a gap of 10 years like it was just yesterday and is a brilliant pastry chef
I have friends who get pleasure out of making my life miserable and really not in the "i will take care of him once he starts crying" types but "let's make him cry for life" types
I have friends who would fight like crazy over who has more Calvin and Hobbes
I have friends who treat potty as religion


Are you normal? sorry you do not qualify !!!

Here is something to celebrate friendship

for the lack of a better word, lets be friends!

I find it hard to digest that some people have "good friends" too many too soon... you know someone for a month and (s)he is a good friend, and then there is one more and one more... I mean how many good friends can one have?

I think this word is being used a lot and without much meaning to it these days... too bad!

I can count my good friends on my fingers, and my friends, well, maybe twice on my fingers... anyone else, and no offence please, is someone that I know or someone who knows me through Chai ki Dukaan, or my flickr page, or through someone I know through chai ki dukaan or my flickr page, or through someone who I know through someone... but com'on!!! friends? its takes something to be called a friend or to be a friend! is it not? or I am just plain stupid?

For me 1 incident, or a couple of them between two people do not make or break friends... its takes time! and something more than the verbal or written or visual to be a friend of someone... a connection that makes you open up and share, and it HAS to be two way!

and I see on blogs and comments and other places, sentences like I love you all, thank you friends, and all that... I find it crazy!

On second thoughts, what is a different word for friend? Are there more words like it which can be used? Is it offensive to admit that you do not treat someone as a friend, but just as someone you know? I personally feel its ok, I would know my place and space and if I don't I should...

Maybe I am just going crazy! well! never mind!