1. No one else in the world knows you like your best friend does.
2. You're comfortable being super honest with them and expressing things you'd never say to anyone else.
3. Seriously — you guys are *super* honest with each other.
4. Despite how crazy you might seem to some people, your friend will always validate your feelings.
5. You know how important it is to always take your friend's side in solidarity.
6. Especially when it comes to their love life and loser exes.
7. You can have different friends from different parts of your life, and sometimes it's even nicer to bring them all together.
8. Because it's always fun when your friends can get along and have fun with one another.
9. Friendship means having similar priorities and knowing what's important in life.
10. It also means having each other's backs in times of desperate need.
11. When you don't see each other for long periods of time, you can't help but miss them terribly.
12. Your friends are allowed to poke fun at you because you know they'd never take it too far.
13. You'd never divulge your friend's most embarrassing stories, because you're usually involved in them too.
14. It's important for your best friend's significant other to like you, and vice versa.
15. Luckily, you're always on the same page as your best friend.
16. And you also share an equally awesome sense of humor.
17. Friendships can also help build great foundations for future relationships and have the potential to turn into something more.
18. And long-term friendships also teach you important lessons about yourself.
19. Friends stick by each other, through thick and thin.
20. And true friends love and support you, despite the rough patches life throws at you.
21. Because friendship is the best kind of love there is.
