Whenever we sign anything for any one of our friends, we seem to say that the person is our best friend. Yes, it's possible to have more than one best friend, but we cannot possibly say that everyone we come into contact with is our best friend. Here's the thing, best friend isn't something that you can just label anyone. It's not something that you should just hand out because that's how people get hurt. The truth is, best friend is a promise, not a label. It's a promise that no matter how hard things get, no matter how wrong you feel that other person is, you are going to stick with them through everything because you genuinely love them.

I used to give this phrase out freely until I realized that those who I called my best friends really didn't feel the same way about me. And I did the same to the people who called me their best friend. Yeah, I care about whoever that person was, and I did enjoy that person's company, but that person wasn't someone that I could see being there for me through all of it. The truth is, being best friends takes work. It's staying in touch and being a two way street.

To me, calling some one a best friend is another way of saying that I love them. Sure, I throw around the phrase "I love you," but when I call someone my best friend, I genuinely, genuinely care about that person, and I will go to the end of the world for and with that person. So if I use the phrase "best friend" it's because I will go to the of the earth fighting for someone because I actually need that person in my life.

Being "best friends" is a trust barrier that was broken and is no longer there. It's allowing someone to break down those walls and allowing them to see you at your most vulnerable state. Best friends are two or more people who care for each other in the worst and best of times. It's people who are willing to fight for each other because they cannot imagine life without the other.

So, it's kind of like how people want everyone to stop throwing the phrase "I love you" around like it's nothing. I want people to stop throwing around "best friend" like it means nothing because it means something deep that no one really seems to realize. There's reason to have caution because if you use that term to describe someone early on, you're going to get hurt. Sometimes, the people who you think have your back, never did in the first place, and those who seem to always stab you in the back were actually helping you fight off the people that wanted to hurt you.