I don’t want a boyfriend, what I really want is a best friend

It looks beautiful, doesn’t it? Find true love. A person to kiss. A person to hang out with. A person you can hold a hand during horror movies. Someone to open up your life, your heart, that you can count on, years and years later.

But finding that person can be a little difficult at times.

There are so many rules and restrictions in the relationship world these days. A person is supposed to be attractive, honest, good conversationalist, trustworthy, romantic and everything we ever dreamed of, right? This should be the perfect person. But perfection in love? That does not exist. And find a flawless and complete person? Impossible (Thank God, none of us would pass the test).

That’s why I don’t want something perfect. And that’s why I don’t want a boyfriend. I really want a best friend.

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I want someone with whom I can be completely myself. I want to wake up in the morning, with all my hair disheveled around my face and sleepy, with no makeup on, with my shirt loose, and not feeling like I have to be someone I’m not.

I want someone to laugh with. To stay up late and talk about stupid things in life. To venture out. To have a good wine at night and make breakfast together the next day, and feel like we know every detail of each other’s lives.

I want someone I can talk to openly, without fear, about my biggest regrets and future plans. Someone I can express myself in. Someone who will be there for me no matter what.

Someone I can eat a family-sized bag of Cheetos with, someone I can lay on the couch with without saying anything, just enjoying each other’s company.

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I want a better friend. Someone I can play dumb with, go out for drinks with, or stay home and watch Prison Break for the tenth time. Someone who praises me and tells me how beautiful I am when he sees me, but who, when necessary, calls my attention and corrects me.

I want someone who knows all my secrets, my dramas and proudest moments. Someone to take me out to dinner and talk about the things that matter. Someone who will not always have to be in charge of things, but who will share the good times by my side. And everything will be worth just for the fact that we are together.

I want someone to make me laugh, to make me crazy, to make me angry, but still be my best friend.

And I want to fall in love with this best friend.

I think the world is wrong. Love is not about finding the perfect person, about finding true love. I think love is about finding your best friend. Someone you are compatible with in many ways, not just romantically. (Because this intimate and cloying thing will one day end.)

I want a better friend, someone who wants me, yes, but most importantly, someone I can really get to know. And someone who knows me, inside and out, flaws and quirks and all my oddities, but still chooses to be mine.

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