Best Friends

Ive always asked myself and people around me to define a best friend and a few have managed to. According to my friends a best friend is someone who is always there ,very close to you ,knows your secrets ,knows you in and out etc.I have had best friends before who I loved dearly but I think because I singled them out & considered them to be my best friends yet they were other people who cared more about me who weren’t necessarily my best friends it led to a lot of disappointments. I have nothing against best friends don’t get me wrong, but as I have gotten older I feel that best friends are so high school, as we grow older we know who our real friends are, the kinds who will always be there, chat with even after a long time of silence, check up on you etc,we do not need to brand them and put stickers on their foreheads to say they are our best friends because when we do that we create an expectation for them ,which is unfair to them because since they are our so called besties ,if they do something wrong based on our expectations then they are no longer our best friends .For me best friend is just a word that should stay in high school and my other question is while you are calling someone else your best friend what about those who are around you and are doing more than what your so called best friend is doing???Do you agree, disagree,need a new bestie, LoL let me know.