Did you ever meet someone you really enjoyed being with? I mean, not just like the many people you meet everyday, get along well and like hanging around with but more like someone of whom you just love the way they act, the way they talk, and maybe even had heaps of things in common that you went through in the past? And just hearing the other's name brings a smile to you? Maybe you even influenced each other in a way or the other, did loads of things together and are really really proud of that?
It'd be someone you trust to no end, and you'd know you'd always be telling each other the truth - and where it's just plain obvious for you that you'd both stick around and be there for each other, no matter what?
Those are the friendships that last forever - nothing that cannot be talked about, no argument that cannot be settled, for every one of them knows the other one just wants the best for them and their friendship. And those are just the little things that can mean the world for someone.

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This is what this picture is all about - it's trying to express true friendship, with warmth and deep caring for each other that can only come from a true friend.
I mean, there are many people you know and get along really well, I'm sure ^-^ But of how many do you know you can really really trust them, and of who you'd know that no matter what the future brings, they'd never turn their back at you, always be there and talk about what's worrying them, or if something is wrong? There are so many shallow 'friendships' - someone hoping to get something out of the other, someone sticking around because they're usually bored and you entertain them so well with your efforts, someone sticking to you just because you're on the sunny side of the life right now, or someone who thinks of you just as another stepping stone to whatever they want? How do you know for sure? It's easy to be friendly with someone if you hope to get something out of them. Know those goofy movies where that big ol' lion suddenly sees everyone around him as huge steaks? I mean, sure, it's cartoon, but - what do your friends see you as? What do mine? Or everyone else's? Do you know for sure?
They say true friends would do everything for each other, but what about fake friends? Well of couuurse they'd do everything, because they get something out of it, which is sad. You don't know their motives until it's too late anyway.
With true friends they do it because you're both going through life as friends, facing and surpassing everything it has to put in your ways; together. And despite of how big the world is, how many people are around your place, or even on deviantArt - these kinds of friendships are so very rare and probably the very most precious treasure one can possibly be lucky enough to find.

Friends forever? These words have a lot of meaning behind them, if you think of it.