Are you your own best friend? Should you be?

[Serenity4321]

This is something I am still working on. I definitely feel we should all be our own best friend. Too often many treat others better than themselves and are more critical of themselves than they should be. This of course in no way means one should be totally selfish or self-centered, but being good to oneself and self-forgiveness and compassion should be there for yourself not just for your family, friends, even strangers.

 

[MarciKS]

I pretty much hafta be. No one else is gonna sign up for the job.

 

[Keesha]

No but I’m working on it.
Great topic.

 

[Serenity4321]

No but I’m working on it.
Great topic.

Good for you..I think we all deserve it!!

 

[Sassycakes]

I do consider myself my own best friend because I am the only one that understands me. Other than myself I think my older sister is the only other person who truly understands me.

 

[timoc]

A few hours after I've eaten sprouts and mushy peas, I'm nobody's friend and definitely not my own. Poooooooh.

 

[Lara]

Surprisingly, all 4 of my grown children...and I... and dogs...get along like best friends. And we all acknowledge that. We talk everyday on the phone, not in a needy way but supportive and just sharing fun stuff and heartwarming stuff.

We all trust each other not to stab anyone in the back, be mean, or hurtful. We don't gossip about each other either...we're all mature enough to know that only divides.

I do have some friends in SF who I consider friends and I trust. That's why I come here.

But I'm also looking forward to making new friends in my new location at the beach.
They are all so friendly there. Even the dogs are all nice!

Here's one of their entrance signs:

...where Nice Matters!

 

[RadishRose]

I don't know I am but I should be!

 

[Becky1951]

Me. myself and I are the best of friends.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I have to be my best friend. I don't know who in the hell would put up with me. I'm so bad, I don't have an evil twin.

 

[horseless carriage]

I couldn't possibly be my own best friend, for the same reason my wife and I, throughout our fifty-three-years of wedlock, have never shared a matrimonial bed.

I fart in the sack!

 

[Feelslikefar]

Probably.

For the first 35 years of my life, I was the only person I could trust.
Know that's not a good thing, but I knew lots of people and just never really trusted anyone to that degree.
I know I've mentioned it before, we moved a lot growing up and then the military with multiple bases, always the 'new guy'.
You learned to trust yourself.

Then I got married to a great lady and she is my best friend and I hope I'm hers.
We both allow each other to be our own 'best friend' anytime the mood strikes, if that makes any sense.

 

[Tish]

It's a work in progress.

 

[Serenity4321]

I don't know I am but I should be!

IMO we all should be...

 

[Serenity4321]

I have to be my best friend. I don't know who in the hell would put up with me. I'm so bad, I don't have an evil twin.

Good for you but I bet there are many who care for you!

Hmmmm....Maybe I will think of that voice within that is overly critical, an evil twin that I am in the process of evicting