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5 Personality Traits to Look for in Your Best Friend
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As a kid, I was always moving cities every three years. This mobility was not really by choice, but that’s just how things are when your dad was part of the army. In all those heady years, I made many friends spanning across different cities. Luckily, I was a social kid and didn’t necessarily have a tough time finding and making friends in the city I shifted to.
Was this social trait in me natural or had it developed over time? An answer to a question I still seek even today. I’d managed to stumble across some really cool people along the way and honestly, it still surprises me that they willingly chose to hang out with this short, squeaky-toned kid. I clearly did something right in their eyes.
As much as I would have loved to maintain those relationships, along the years they fizzled out. The common reasons behind this were due to the lack of communication, distance, or just naturally, as we each entered new phases in our lives. But despite the lost friendships, I learned a lot from each one of them. They helped me discover a side to me that I didn’t know existed in the first place.
As I reflect upon my friendships across the years, I realize that I have had many best…
