It really exists: friendship at first sight

Can you still remember that very first moment you met your bestie and what you said to each other back then? Maybe not at all. But that doesn't matter.

Because it was a hit from the first second you saw each other – that is something that is certain. We all know love at first sight, but friendship not at first sight, on the other hand. Standing face to face with your platonic soulmate, so to speak. And that exists too.

A scientific study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships has proven this fact. They investigated how first-year students made friends. And yes, first-year students who had genuine fun with each other from the very first second still saw each other a long time later. That close friendship often formed right from the first moment. Another study shows that women more than men thought during a first meeting with someone: ‘yay, you are my new girlfriend’. And that their feeling was indeed correct, even months or years later.

I definitely believe in it: the first time I saw my best friend, we immediately went to eat a hamburger together. And the next time we already drank a bottle of wine (or three, I don't remember). Not long after, we booked our first vacation to Valencia. The friendship developed quite quickly – but we knew right from minute one that there was a nice click. Then you might as well enthusiastically continue together.

And that our girls are important to us, is clear. The feelings we have in a close, deep friendship can actually be compared to those of a great love. No less than 60 percent of people think so too friendship is all about pure chemistry with the other. In short: finding your true matches among all those friendly fish in the sea. So that feeling of ‘at first sight’ is not so crazy, when you look at it that way.

Fortunately, I already have a new vacation planned with my love-at-first-sight friend. We're going to eat hamburgers and drink wine. In Spain, yes. Never change a winning team, right?

FACTS

– Friends make you happier and healthier than family members. Certainly gay besties make you happy.
– We have an average of 7-9 good friends.
– When we are older than 65 years, we have the most good buddies: an average of about 13.

Source: Daily Mail