WTV The Back-Up Friend | La Amistad de Reserva

Random day you're just walking through the streets of your city alone, maybe you were shopping or maybe just having some alone time, thinking about your stuff. You look for the nearest bus stop that drops you home and wait for the bus.

And suddenly, you hear your name.

You turn around and see someone heading in your direction and, yes, it was your name she was shouting. She comes nearer and nearer and then you see it's that friend of yours. You don't have time to think that friend isn't exactly the best word to describe your relationship with her before she hugs you like she hasn't seen you in a lifetime while asking "How are you doing?".

You start telling her about your last vacation or how stressed you are about college and love and life in general and she tells you more or less the same. 

She ends the conversation with a "We should have coffe sometime" and leaves in the other direction.

The conversation leaves me thinking about what exactly our so called friendship is based on. I know we're friends since we were in kindergarden and since then we had our ups and downs, but nothing really terrifying happened. Now, you begin to realize that if you wanted to see a new movie and your good friends couldn't come, you would call her. If you wanted to party and knew her dad would take you home, you would pretend wanting to party with her. 

Face it, she's not your friend, she's your Back-up Friend.

It means she's someone you're more or less comfortable with, although you don't have that much in common, but you could make up stuff to talk about for a while. 

In front of everyone else, you two will be seen as very good friends who know each other since they're little, but you know, and she does probably too, that this "thing" you share isn't exactly friendship.

So, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

In my opinion, it's not bad at all! This type of friendship is good to have in your inventory for special occasions where you need someone and you don't know who to call or who to talk to. 

Although you must be really careful that the other person is as independent as you are from her, that the back-up friendship is held from both sides.