The big BFF checklist

A text can already reveal my mood. Suddenly I get back: is everything okay with you? And when she sends that, I'm usually a hundred years away from okay. I mean the best friend forever, of course. I've been sharing everything with mine for twelve years. Or well, almost everything. By the way, the traditional best-friends-being seems to be changing. Where that honorable mention used to be reserved for one person, now there are often two who get to flaunt the title.

Researchers from Hallmark conjured up the thirty most important things in a friendship. Look, we naturally make a checklist from that and then you can check if someone is really your dearest friend. Want to be sure? Just go through it.

1. Tagging in the photo on social

This is the best-friends-forever code. If you start tagging in photos, then you check if she gives permission for that unflattering snapshot. Don't do this? Ai, ai, ai.

2. Never judge

Seems logical to me, even if what she does is really silly. You can certainly say what you think, but she remains the sweetest no matter what.

3. Behind her back

If you gossip and clap behind her back, then you can no longer call yourself a best friend. No discussion, done.

4. Zip that lip

The secrets are safe with you and with her. Never ever have a slip of the tongue when it comes to your bff.

5. Secret jokes for pals

You have a drawer full of jokes that only you understand. And find funny, too.

6. One look says it all

Whether you're on your period, or he's acting dumb, or you just want to cry really hard, or there's a fart stuck. That kind of first world problems.

7. Hans, Griet, Miep, and Kees

You're on a gigantic first-name basis with each other's parents. That's because you celebrated Christmas together for a hundred years and had sleepovers when the guys or girls were a bit less in sight.

8. You keep the card

Hallmark wouldn't be Hallmark, of course. But 32 percent keeps a sweet card they once received from their bff.

9. Intimacy is prime

You discuss everything. A pap smear this, your sex life that. That kind of stuff.

10. Honest, honest, honest.

You just tell each other everything, without censorship.

11. Being silent

You are both particularly skilled at this, without it being awkward. I once spent an entire vacation reading books on a beach bed together with my dearest friend, those were good conversations.

12. Let it be fun

If you're having a bad day, she gets you giggling. And vice versa.

13. YES!

If the sentence starts with ‘will you help me’, you say yes without knowing what it's about.

14. And, move on

Did you have a little spat? When it's spoken out, it's all hearts and love all over the place again.

15. Pants off, on your head

You have no problem changing in the same room. No shame, of course.

16. Thinks of the little things

That you need to go to the doctor or that big pitch is in five minutes. That message pops up in your WhatsApp at exactly the right time.

17. Tooth for tooth

The best friend tells you that something is bothering you and you really need those kinds of people in your life.

18. Everything covered

He or she provides you with an alibi, always and everywhere. In most dubious situations, yes.

19. Waiter!

Your bestie orders your favorite drink when you text that you'll be there in a minute, because this stuff is well-known, of course.

20. Exception to the rule

Do you send your Tikkies to everyone until you drop? You don't do that with your bff and you don't even check your account number to see if she has transferred anything.
Look, that’s what friends are for. And, has your bff passed the big test?

Source: Mirror.co.uk