Are There Different Levels of Friendship?

Everyone has a different meaning of friendship. Some people only need friends when they feel lonely or need something. Others love having their friends around once in awhile, and others love having their friends around all the time. Some people need friends to keep their day going, some people rely on their friends for everything, and it's not always a bad thing. To me there are different levels of friendship:

Level 1:

You have a friend or maybe even two, but you are not actually sure if you can call them your friend because the only time you actually talk them is when you say hi to them every once in awhile in the hallway or in school in general. You may text them or talk to them from time to time out of school if you are bored. But in reality you actually know nothing about them.

Level 2:

Theses are the friends that tell you they are always there for you, but they never actually are when there is a real problem. They are usually great company and I mean you may know more about them tan your hallway friend, but they are not the person that you can rely on to show up for you more often than never.

Level 3:

The friends you have had since graded school, the ones that have come and gone, because once you hit high school you all realized that there were way too many people you could be friends, so why stick with the old ones? They know almost everything about you, except the stuff you did not choose to tell them. They know your embarassing transition, your family, what your favorite color is. They know the basics, and you know they will be there for you because they were your first real friends. They will always have your back.

Level 4:

You call them your best friend. You can open up to them, tell them the smaller details about you, they know you well, too well at that. Their family is yours, and yours is theirs. You’ve had each others back for years, no matter how many time you split, you came back to each other, not feeling like any time was lost. Sometimes you drift apart because you have those other levels of friends that may seem more important at times, or someone gets a boyfriend. But overtime you will still need each other, you will still make time for one another. You were always the person they could fall back on. You can say anything to them. And you tell them you love them, even when they are being a pain in the ass.

Level 5:

This human right here is more than your best friend. This is your person. The person you run first to for anything and everything. It is more than a friendship. They are your family, you can never get tired of spending time with them, and every free moment you have you want to spend it with them. Sometimes is feels like you are smothering them with all your over dramatic problems, but in all honesty they love it. When you don't see or hear from them for days, you feel empty, like a piece of you is missing. You may fight, but they are not actual fights, because within ten minutes you are laughing about something stupid one of you had said the day before. They love you unconditionally, even if you are just a giant bag of feelings and weird at times. Being someone's person is special, it's a commitment.

A lot of people believe friends are just friends, or there are only acquaintances, friends and bestfriends. Which makes sense, because in my eyes not everyone is lucky enough to find a person. Shoot I don’t even know if I’m that lucky