"Hi there! My name is Jordyn, and I am guest blogging for my friend today. Since her blog focus is interpersonal relationships (and today is my birthday), I figured I'd say something about some of the people that make birthdays the best: your friends. I spend a lot of time with my friends; we like to go out, hang out, and just be together. But according to one of the surveys I took in 17 Magazine, there at many different types of friends -- and I can't even be sure my best ones are even all that close to me.
A couple of weeks ago I was thumbing through an old magazine
looking for a specific picture to show my mom, and I came across a survey,
"Who Are Your Best Friends?" It had questions like: how often do you
spend time with your friends, what do you like to go out and do with your friends,
and what do you like to discuss with your friends (kind of like this
one). So I checked all the little boxes that applied, and looked at the
"results", and the magazine writers' analysis. According to the
results page, none of my friends were actually my friends. Why? Because we like
to discuss TV shows that we watch together.
Does discussing something as simple as a TV show that we
like to watch mean that we're not really friends? It's not like we don't
discuss other things - heavier and more important issues - because we do. But I
think that there is some value to being able to talk about things that aren't
so important. It's the same way that a student needs a ten minute break while
writing a twenty page paper; it gives people time to relax and take a break. So
I think that, while it may be superficial and a "filler"
conversation, it shows that people understand when their friends need to take a
break. A conversation about something silly like a TV show or song may not have
much real depth to the actual conversation but it may have depth depending on
the nature of the friends. At least, I know it does for me."
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