Human beings are social animals, a person can not live alone in the world without friends. But the way everyone treats his friend is according to the degree of intimacy. In that way I think everyone will have three kinds of friends.
The first kind of friend should be called “close friends”. This friend is the one who would like to be with you in the same boat, not leave you away when you are in adversity, suppressed and depressed; And he is the one who can share the joy of success and happiness, not jealous not alienate, really happy for you when you are riding on the crest of success, everything goes well. So this kind of friend’s relationship is a warm lasting that like blood is thicker than water. In one’s life, such close friends is not a lot, and, as the growth of the age, will become less and less.
The second kind of friend should be called “feeling friends”. This friend although can not compare with close friends whom you can talk everything with, but in the emotional communication can have many things to share with you. You would like to tell your troubles to him, to pour out your happiness with him, each other can find many resonance of the place in emotional. And this kind of friend’s relationship may be just stay in a hedge between keeps friendship green position.
The third kind of friend should be called “share happy friends”. This friend has common interests with each other, you can go out for outing, go to the various of cultural activities, add more fun to life. But, contact with this kind of friends rarely privacy, and is also far from mind communication, everybody getting together is for fun. In the daily lives of the people, most of them are such friends. To be this kind of friend is easy to each other, and what is there against it?
Anthropologists put above kinds of friend on the three known as “practical friends”, and it is said that in human communication process, most can only maintain at about 150 persons. Friends have their own degree of intimacy, this is the human social needs. But it is also caused many errors of making friends, and make a lot of people feel confused. The most sad way is that when you still put a person as a friend and never forget for a moment, but the man would have put you the land of nowhere. For example, when you visit your college friend, you remember him, but he even can not call out of your name, he mutters “have I met you?” Or, is to say “why do you look so familiar?” Meet this kind of embarrassing situation, you need not to be sad, just to tell yourself in the heart, the relationship between the two of you are already at 150 people outside the scope, why so seriously.
It’s hard to say how many friends can a person exactly make all his life. Although anthropologists has gotten the prediction, but it still needs to be confirmed. The number of friends that everyone has made, are influenced by the character, gender, race, religion, age, nationality, and other factors. But, it doesn’t mean the number of friends is unlimited. This is people once to a new place, you will find new friends, and gradually forget old friends. Although in the emotion you don’t want to alienate old friends, but you can’t let your brain maintain excess circle of friends. And every time you turn an ordinary friend upgraded to the intimate friend, your another close friend will be intangible demoted to the ordinary friend, this is like a sociological rule. “how can old friend forget off the good old days”, but it is not easy to do not forget. Think about it, isn’t it?