Are you a good friend?

I've been watching The Hills way too much in the past few days...I've seen all the episodes for like at least 3 times(and there's 5 seasons with at least 20 episodes in them all), so this would be my fourth time. Ridicilous....maybe...addicting...yes.

So The Hills is all about friendships and how they start and come to their ends. That made me think of my own history of friends. The friendships that have just kinda dried out or ended at a bad note, the ones that have been going strong for decades, and the ones that I have now.
What is a good friend like? What qualities makes someone a good friend, and am I one?

I've been horrible in the past and still am sometimes, but mainly I try to keep my friends happy, 'cause then I'm happy. I hate to see someone important to me feel like rubbish, 'cause no one should. I have friends that I am in contact with pretty much everyday, but I also have ones that never return my calls 'cause they're so busy but that I have loads of fun with when we meet, and the ones I can count on no matter what, even if we hadn't met in a year. Then there are the ones that I have cut off for some reason, and the ones that have been there my whole life. Everyone is different from each other which baffles me...there must be some quality that makes them all my friends, even if they don't know each other.
I'd like to think that I figured it out...they are all good people. All the people that I have in my life are good people...personalities are really different...vibe is the same.

There has been lot's of new people coming and going in the past few years with bit of drama involved. Some of them just stayed for a while but there are ones that I hope are to stay. You can never have enough friends, but the best ones are the ones that make life easier, and put up with all my not-so-briliant ideas and all my weird rules for life . Thank you for that :D

The answer to the question, am I a good friend; answer is that I do my absolute best in that. I'll end this with a brilliant quote I found from the Internet...(I've been reading way too much of those too lately. )

"A friend is the one who sits next to you and lets you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one is left." -Author unknown