friends

What is a good friend?  Is it a person you see ever day?  A person who listens even when they cant be there?  A person who you do not see ever day but are close and could share the world with?  Since I started college I have been asking my self this question a lot.

When school first started last year I had huge breaks and to sit and make "friends".  As time went on this friends "friends" used me and played me and then where done.  The talked about they told me who I could talk to and hang out with?  Where they really my friends?  To me no they where people that tough me things.  I do not regret meeting they or calling them my "friends", they tough me life lesson.  How every thing is not how it seems and how people can be and cruel. As time went on my "friends" stopped talking to me. 

I did meet some awesome people at school not all of them where mean.  And still talk to them and hang out with them.  I still have my best friend from high school too.  I'm not trying to say every person I have meet and every one in college is mean just a few. 

I still want to know what makes a good friend.  I have learned a lot about this by going to school and talking to people and making friends.  I have not found a good answer to this question. Every person has there own view of what a good friend is.  I may not get the chance to talk to my best friend everyday or see her everyday but where still friend and would stop the world for each other and that's all that really matters in the end.