"friend" - noun

1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows,; an acquaintance.
3. A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
4. One who supports, sympathises with, or patronises a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement .
5. Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.

Word History: A friend is a lover, literally. The relationship between Latin amcus “friend” and am “I love” is clear, as is the relationship between Greek philos “friend” and phile “I love.” In English, though, we have to go back a millennium before we see the verb related to friend. At that time, frond, the Old English word for “friend,” was simply the present participle of the verb fron, “to love.” The Germanic root behind this verb is *fr-, which meant “to like, love, be friendly to.” Closely linked to these concepts is that of “peace,” and in fact Germanic made a noun from this root, *frithu-, meaning exactly that. Ultimately descended from this noun are the personal names Frederick, “peaceful ruler,” and Siegfried, ”victory peace.” The root also shows up in the name of the Germanic deity Frigg, the goddess of love, who lives on today in the word Friday, “day of Frigg,” from an ancient translation of Latin Veneris dis, “day of Venus.”

Quoted from Dictionary.com

I don't think of my acquaintances as being my friends. I think I'm more apt to go with the first definition of a friend as being someone who I like and trust. I'm thinking about this a bit because I just caught up with Lisa on the phone and we had a good long chat tonight. I suppose I think of people who I can talk to as friends. I suppose that's when I realised that the people I met at my last job weren't just colleagues but were my friends as well.

I was really inspired to write after my conversation with Lisa, but I'm finding that I'm not able to find any words that I'm happy with. I'm just happy that we've caught up and that we've shared that time talking about things together like we used to when we were at uni. Before we all got day jobs. So I think I'll leave it at that. Nothing profound. Just wanted to share that I'm happy.