The other day I was having a conversation with my friend who was seeking some kind of information on cars. I told him proudly that one of my blogger friends is a car enthusiast and we can seek his opinion. “In this changing world, our categories of friends are increasing by every passing day. The life is becoming amazing.” He replied.
I was hit by the word ‘categories of friends’. I thought about these categories of friends and decided to jot down. As I started to think, my list of friend categories went up to 8.
My list is as below (not in any particular order):
Running friends – Friends whom I meet once in a month for a 10 KM run. All are amazing people but our conversation starts with a run and ends with run. We have exchanged our phone numbers, email IDs but most of the conversation revolves around preparation of next run.
Drinking buddies – We get together once in a week or once in two weeks and drink ‘away to glory’. We discuss everything under the sun. We try to remain in touch. Most of our drinking programs are made and finalized just a day before actual ‘event’.
Blogger friends – We share knowledge, help each other and stay regular in touch through blogs.
Other Social Network friends – Huge list of friends and connections on Facebook, Orkut and LinkedIn wherein my friend’s friend is also my friend. But it stays there only.
College friends – Some good college friends who care to stay in touch or with whom I wanted to stay in touch.
School friends – Same as above
Elevator friends – These are my friends whom I meet regularly or irregularly in elevator. We exchange Hellos and generally discuss jobs, life, weather and society. Meeting time is less – sometimes as less as 20 seconds but fruitful.
Office friends – Need not to write much. Most of the conversations revolve around office happenings only.
Family friends – These are friends which are passed on to me by my parents. I do not know them well but need to ‘mark my attendance’ whenever required.
When I was a kid, I used to have a best friend, some good friends and then the rest. This was a kind of trend with everyone at that time. I knew this small set of friends very well. I knew their choices of games, and their choices of toys. I knew their parents also. Their brothers and sisters were my brothers and sisters as well.
The number of friends was less but all of them were special. They were like extended ‘me’.
Above listed friends are special in their own ways but the domain of friendship is limited. Each category a small extension of my personality.
Please do share if you also have similar kind of friend categories.
by le embrouille blogueur , on July 9, 2009 11:39 PM
For the adventurous ......(not me) ...Girl Friends ..one or more of whom you end up spending the rest of your life with ...and then the others who you meet in the subway and smile and say ..."aisa lagtaa hai maine aap ko pehle kabhie dekha hai" ..lol !!
by rads , on July 10, 2009 1:03 AM
wow..nice research n a gr8 list..LOL @ what LEB said...
by Ramesh , on July 10, 2009 5:47 AM
Very nice observation Adesh. You are right, in the increasingly complex world we live in, we do indeed have multiple categories of friends. I can't match LEB's brilliant observation (LOL), but a few additional categories I have are country friends (Indians, Chinese, Brits, etc) and "school friends" - parents of my daughter's friends.
by Dhiman , on July 10, 2009 12:01 PM
ha ha ha a good and unique list ...Elevator friends ...well I don't have them yet... I used to have "Bus friends" when I used to take same bus everyday to office :D
by Parv Kaushik , on July 10, 2009 3:42 PM
this one was true.. the friendship hierarchy you've explained of childhood was soo true... it was a nice one!!!
keep blogging!
by SiD , on July 11, 2009 10:23 AM
Nice post dude...gr8 research...
by A journey called Life , on July 12, 2009 4:18 PM
haha good one.. i totally loved the blogger friends category..
by preposterous girl , on July 14, 2009 9:31 AM
HEy Adesh.
Good work.Never thought abt it , but so true.. Btw I have never come across anyone having elevator friends :) u r creative in even categorising the friends :P
by thethoughtfultrain , on July 24, 2009 10:31 PM
It is surprising when one's mental list appears in another's blog. :-) Amazing!