A true friend is someone who will do stupid things with you no matter the consequences, they all ways have your back and will help you when you are in need. 

The number 1 rule to being a true friend !!!!

Be Real :

Connect with people whose friendship you value and see as sustainable long-term. Good friendships don't arise from hoping someone else's popularity or networks will rub off on you. Rather, a good friendship comes about by being with people who connect with you at a basic level. If you're trying to be friends with a person just to be accepted into a certain clique, or because you'd like to get to know someone else that he or she knows, that's not friendship – it's opportunism – and eventually you'll regret the shallow nature of your involvement. Every new person you meet has the right to be accepted (or not) on his or her own merits, so it's better to just be yourself than to let anyone else influence you into being someone you are not. In turn, you have a responsibility to fill their life with good memories and happy moments. Bear in mind it's better to be detested for who you are, than to be liked for who you aren't and good friendships withstand differences of opinion or outlooks anyway and never leave your friends behind.

A true friend is that one who's ever there for you, who helps you in your personal objectives, who brings some sense to that madness named "life", who can keeps secrets. 

That's a true friend.

I think a true friend is someone who always has your back even if the stuff that is going down is all your fault, someone who would fight alongside you and give you advise when it was needed. A person you can always turn to and say dude I need help, or I need to talk. By the way DBDonald I like your post layout XP

To me a true friends is that always try to push you into the right direction, and care about you for what you do with your life. Also they don't make you do a bad habit, and that they support your good ideas.

DBDonald : To me a true friend is someone who will be with you through thick and thin, in good times and bad. A true friend should be someone who is authentic, (Honest) someone of integrity and someone you can trust. Unfortunately for me I have been on both ends of friendships and relationships that have gone bad.

There was a time during my school years (pre-high school) where I had many friends and was generally well-liked by almost everyone. Many of these friends where people that I had known for many years going back to when we were as young as six when I first moved to where I am now. As things got into high school though some of these friends who had known me forever or at least through middle school changed in their manner and how they acted toward others including me. Most of these people I would have taken a bullet for if I needed to. For a long time especially after I dropped out of school I had a lot of anger toward many of them because I felt like I was more or less forgotten about after we all went into that place and I more or less learned a lesson that although I trusted many of them, that I shouldn’t be too quick to trust people but at the same time not shut people out and allow everyone at least a chance to show what kind of character they have which is something that I didn’t always think about when I was younger.

As I say that I will also admit that there was a time during my teen years where I was not the most authentic person myself. Therefore I throw no stones because I am far from perfect and never claimed to be. Since realizing the error of my ways, I have realized that there were some friendships where I wasn’t the best person and was most likely the cause of some relationships falling out. As I said before there was a time when I had a lot of anger toward many people who I trusted. The problem with that is as I often say anger in itself is like a cancer and it will slowly eat at you if you let it. For a long time that is what I allowed to happen to me. The result of that is that for the few people who did stick by me, I wasn’t always the easiest person to be around. Admittedly, I was hard-headed and set in my ways to be big degree. Another problem was that I sort of latched on to some of those friends, and I admit I probably smothered to a degree. I just hope that one day I will get the opportunity to show those friends and the friends who I was not real good to that I am a different person now.

In regard to the friends that I wasn’t real good to, it wasn’t a case of me not valuing the friendship or anything, it was more of a case of me having too many bad influences around me at the time and that is what one has to deal with as they grow up. Hopefully most of those people who go through trials and tribulations in their youth allow themselves to grow up as a person and not just chronologically. I know that in many ways I have a completely different head on my shoulders today than I did when I was younger. As I often say it’s all part of the maturing process. The key is if a person allows themselves to mature.

As for the friends who were out of my life for many years, I have reconnected with some of them and for the most part I have given all of them the benefit of the doubt. It isn’t worth it to dwell on things that are in the past, in most cases for double digit years. As I have gotten older and along with realizing my own mistakes, I have realized that a big part of why those friends acted differently back then was they were probably trying to fit in with the “In crowd.” It was high school after all and as I said I throw no stones when I say that I, myself have made my share of mistakes. For the most part most of these friends have kind of gone back to the people I knew in terms of character before we got in high school.

I will admit that I have been a bit resistant to meeting up with most of these people for a face to face reunion but at least things have been cordial since reconnecting. I wouldn’t have even been open to reconnecting years ago. I guess you live and you learn as time goes on and if you allow it, it can make you a wiser person.

Although I feel that things like honesty and loyalty are extremely important in determining a true friend and a real friendship; I feel it is just as important to be forgiving of those who may have wronged you. One way I was able to get passed my anger was to say to myself as someone who has made mistakes, would you want someone to hold a grudge against you for the rest of your life if you had wronged them? I will admit it took me a long time to get to that point but once I got there it kind of seemed real simple, but at the same time because of the anger and the various situations quite complicated…

Although I don’t consider myself to be deeply religious it does kind of remind me of the our father prayer where we ask God to forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. It really is the same principal. All I can say really for those who have been in the shoes or are in the shoes of holding anger, it really isn’t worth it. It’s better to at least hear those who have wronged you out and at least attempt to bury the hatchet. I hope that in time I will be able to do so with those who I have wronged much as I’m open to hearing those who have wronged me out.

A true friend is someone who will stick by your side no matter what. My friend Emily has had cancer for about 3 or 4 years. I wasn't able to call her that much because she was always in the hospital getting Chemo treatment. She is my next door neighbor however, and I would always walk to her house and give her parents letters for her. When I was in and out of the hospital along with her, I would do everything in my power to either get to a phone, write her a letter, or go online to message her on Facebook. She means the world to me, and she has also stuck through with me with my entire eating disorder. She cares about me so much, and she is really a true friend to me. We have been together through thick and thin, and she never left me alone by myself in the hospitals. She has been through so much, and a lot of the times I thought she was going to pass away from her cancer, but she stuck through with it, and is now finally finished with chemo. She is such an inspiration to me, and always will be. She is a true friend.

Beautiful story, mscoral.

To me, a true friend is someone who is always there for you, and never turns their back. Someone you can tell anything, or talk to about anything. Someone you can trust with anything at all. Someone who wants to share your burden, and would do anything to help you through. and not least of all, someone who is willing to smack you upside the head and ask "What were you thinking?!?" and put you back on the right track. lol My best friend is all this and so much more, and I am madly in love with her. I'm so thankful that she and I met.

A true friend....I have never had a true friend but to me a true friend is someone who will always be there for you to stick by through hard times who wouldn't stop to try and make you feel better someone who sticks up for you and who you can completely trust someone who wont let you down and will be almost like a brother to you

For me, a true friend is someone you can talk about *BLEEP* and *BLEEP* but also *BLEEP* and *BLEEP* with, yet they wont judge what you like and you also don't judge on what they like either.

Someone you can be completely open to, and they'll be completely open to you as well, both accepting each other and just hanging out all the time and whatnot.

Someone that you can laugh with, cry with, play with, study with, travel with, etc.

Basically, a true friend is someone you can be completely comfortable around no matter the situation or the topic.

~A true, true friend helps a friend in need.
~A friend will be there to help them see.
~A true, true friend helps a friend in need.
~To see the light that shines from a true, true friend.

To me a true friend is someone who will always have your back, he or she will be there when you need them.
They will listen to you when you are having a bad day, and do what they can to comfort you.
A true friend is the kind of person you can sit there and call names, but that's ok because they just call you something worse right back lol
They will never sell you out, they safe guard your secrets as you do theirs.

There are so many things that make up a true friend to people, some may be like what I have said, some might be like others have said.
Or some might be completely different to both, but the point is still the same.
A true friend is a true friend. So appreciate them, because speaking from experience, I nearly lost mine over a stupid fight about an ex girlfriend. I was to stubborn to see she was trying to help.
And in the end it turns out she was right all along, I don't know where I would be without my best bud, she gets me through a lot lol

I think that a true friend is someone that will keep your secrets and stand by your side no matter what happens. Or no matter how crazy you might act.

To me a true friend is the type of person that truly knows how you are and doesn't care anyways, a person that even if you have strong thought on something and they don't  agree with you but are still cool afterwards, also one that can tell you off when you need it.

A true friend is one who will support and back you up on anything, they wouldn't judge you and would always be by your side in times of need.
That is a true friend.

I think a true friend is someone that you can trust and talk to about anything. They are there for you through hardships and stand by your side; they don't abandon you in your time of need or push you off to the side. A true friend is loyal and honest. That's what I think.