Friends in Low Places
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							Friends...  everybody has friends, we all know this.  There are different levels of friends...  you have the people you like that you associate with on a very limited basis, the people you associate with on semi-regular basisi, and you have the "core-group".  The core-group are the ones you hang out with all the time, and do something with each other every couple days or so (work allowing).      Of my core-group of friends, there are three of them.  Coincidently enough, two are girls, one is a guy.  The guy has been my best friend from college.  One of the girls is my best friend's wife, whom I have also known from college.  The other girl is someone I've met through them originating from their place of work.  She had previously dated Ryan(for more why I hate Ryan), and things didn't work out, so she has gone back to a former boyfriend.       The thing is, I have always looked for friends of mine as possible relationships before any stranger.  She and I have so much in common, that we would get along great, and yet we have so many differences that things would never be boring.  But again, she has a boyfriend, and I won't intrude.      The whole friendship thing with people of the opposite sex is confusing to me.  Yes, I can understand being just friends, but also when you spend so much time with friends you get to see the real person much faster than you do when in a relationship.  There is no impressing, or having to be impressed with this person after the first week.  While in dating, it is almost months before that stage ends.  That is really sad.      As well, people should be more open to accepting friends as possible companions.  Friends, at the base level, are people that share common intrests and offer emotional support without asking something in return.   Then wouldn't it be easier to find companionship among those who share common interests and offer emotional support, as well as, break the psychological barriers of strangers?  Of course it makes senses, and that is why is is't being done...  humans have the most messed up "unspoken" rules of any species.      Sucks to be human, sometimes, eh?