40+ Wholesome Tweets That Show What Real Friendship Is All About

There are some friends that you make when you’re young that you just lose contact with because things happen in life.

Especially when you’re a kid, it can be hard to stay in touch when you don’t have full control over where you go or live. Luckily, these two had the chance to connect later in life and realized that they definitely hadn’t forgotten about one another even a bit.

There are some things that you do for your friends because you want them to know that they’re important and just how much they mean to you.

That’s why this person finds it so important to say those words out loud. While actions are great, sometimes your friends just need to hear that you’re in their corner and that you support them no matter what.

When you’re young, you might make most of your friends naturally by just being around them in class or during after-school activities.

This person found it just wasn’t quite the same as an adult. Then again, there’s definitely a lot more room to make your own schedule and cancel plans once you’re all grown up. That can really put a damper on meeting new people too.

When you’re at a party or hanging out with a group, sometimes it’s hard to put yourself out there and strike up a conversation. Unfortunately, the truth is that it doesn’t always work.

There are times you start to talk and you can practically watch people’s attention start to drift away. That’s when someone like this feels really encouraging to have around. It’s a little boost to know that at least someone’s paying attention.

Adult life, at the end of the day, is busy. Most people, no matter what they do, have things in their life that keep them occupied from day to day.

When those things are work or family or any other responsibility, there sometimes isn’t as much time as you’d like to do things like call your friend back. It’s okay, though — a true friendship will last through little things like this from time to time.

There are certain behaviors you look for in animals when you’re trying to befriend them. For instance, if you want to be friends with a crow, it’ll let you know when it likes you. One way they do this is to leave you little treats.

It’s usually something eye-catching and shiny they found while they were exploring throughout the day. This person couldn’t help but notice a similarity between this and the way they share funny tweets with their friend.

Just because you’re friends with someone doesn’t mean that you always agree on everything. To give an example, you might not get along with everyone your best friend dates.

Maybe you just have differing personalities or, from an outside perspective, you can see that your friend deserves better. In that case, you probably can’t help but celebrate her a little bit when she finally leaves him behind. Good for her!

There are times you need to cancel your plans and take a little time to yourself for some self-care. After all, your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

However, your friends often want to help you through hard times. So, if you have to cry at dinner, they want to be your shoulder to cry on out of sheer friendship. This person definitely didn’t want her friend crying alone.

While you always want to be there for your friends, you have to take care of yourself too. If you aren’t at the best for your own health, how can you support them as well?

Sometimes, this means recognizing when you need a break and stepping back. A strong friendship means taking each other’s states into account when you check in. That’s why these friends made the habit of making sure they’re both in the right space before confiding in each other.

When you want to show your love for your friends, there are a lot of ways to do it. Maybe you hug or wear friendship bracelets.

If that’s not enough, maybe matching outfits are the name of the game — take Ryan Gosling and Mccauley Culkin’s t-shirt bromance, for instance. That’s what this pair went for when they got matching shirts. When you look at the designs on their shirts, though, it seems like they must have a tradition of crafting these outfits.

There are some people who think that endlessly cheering your friends on is what you do when you’re close. That’s not quite it, though, is it? In reality, a true friend will do more than that.

They’ll let you know when you might need to be challenged on something or if they have a differing opinion. Friendship means the ability to share those opinions with one another honestly and, hopefully, cordially.

There are times you want to talk but that doesn’t mean you want to try out your next speech that’s worthy of a Nobel Prize.

In some moments, you just want to prattle on about your latest thoughts to someone. It doesn’t always have to be clever or important when you measure what you say around the people you love the most. Sometimes, they listen as closely as if it was a TED talk.

When you’re an adult, you don’t often have as much time to visit with your friends as you might have when you were close to them during your school years.

Still, that only makes the time that you have to see each other even more special. However, that doesn’t quite mean that you’ll remember exactly where you’re going every time. It also doesn’t mean that you’re going to make a note of it in your phone, either.

When you’re friends with someone, you want what’s best for them. So, when they take those opportunities, you want to see them take full advantage of them! This person captured the feeling perfectly, if not a bit comedically.

When they saw their friends achieving their accomplishments, they couldn’t help but shed a tear at their success. They’re their friends’ biggest cheerleaders, after all! How could they not get a little emotional at a win?

If you listen to a certain classic pop tune, you might be suspicious of someone who was relying on someone else for a ride.

As an adult, this person sees that maybe that’s not the whole picture. Perhaps this is just a wholesome friendship. Not to mention, cars and gas are expensive, so maybe they’re just a financially clever pair looking to save some money by carpooling.

When you become close friends with someone, you might share things you wouldn’t share with anyone else in the world. It depends on how close you are, though.

For example, if you need someone in a moment of need, you can call on most close friends for help. However, you have to really trust someone if you want them to get rid of your embarrassing or private photos before anyone else finds them.

There are times when you need your friend to be there as a voice of reason, whether you have a bad idea that you want to go through or simply need advice. Other times, you just want someone to have a little fun with. On top of that, your friends are only human.

This means that they’re bound to have bad ideas of their own, go along with yours, and just generally not always serve as your voice of reason. Oftentimes, you might find yourselves neck-deep in trouble but at least you’re together!

When you look for a new friend, what do you keep an eye out for? Do you want someone funny, loyal, or clever or do you just see who you meet that you spark with?

Down to its basics, this person thought they had it figured out. After all, who can you be weird with if not your closest friend in the whole world? In a true friendship, they’ll probably feel that way as well! So, you can both be your honest selves with each other.

When you have close friends, you probably turn to them when you need something. That can be something as small as crafting the perfect text response.

There are some times that you don’t need to worry about a text response but when you’re dating someone, you probably want to get it just right — whether it’s flirtatious or an argument. This person wanted to be real about how much help they lend in their friendships to these sorts of issues.

There are a few ways that you can make friends. One often tried and true way is to look for people who you share a common interest with so you have something to bond over.

That’s not really all you can bond over, though. You can just as easily bond over the things that you don’t like and take some time to vent about it in the process. It’s the bitter ties that bind these friendships.

There are times when you might have limited time to interact with your friends. For example, you might only have so much time to talk in class.

So, when you have friends that you hang out with there, you’ll need to consider how much time you have. In class, there might not be cause or time to learn each others’ full names but there’s plenty of time to chat about life in general. It’s funny where small talk can take you.

You’ve probably heard people say that if you’re smiling at your phone, people might wonder if you’re talking to someone in a romantic way. As this person points out, that’s quite a presumption!

Not only are you allowed to smile at other people texting you but you and your best friend probably make each other laugh quite a bit. This person couldn’t help but wonder who else people thought could possibly make them laugh like this.

Your friends will always be there for you when you need some help after a hard day. What is friendship for if not forming a bond you can rely on?

Of course, your closest friends are probably great at lightening the mood too. Plus, they often have a little more license to poke fun at you, as compared to others. This person was only being honest in this warning that they’d definitely be there for you but they might still take a minute to laugh.

When you’re down in the dumps, sometimes it’s really hard to get out of it. Leaning on your support system can help you get through the hard times, though.

In addition to that, your friends surely want to make sure you’re feeling better and show their support in any way they can. There are times when seeing your friends can help lift your mood for a few hours.

There are some people to whom you only reveal part of your life. It’s not always wise or appropriate to jump into your deepest, darkest secrets with everyone you meet.

On the other hand, you have to spill these secrets to someone, right? You can’t keep them inside forever, can you? Well, that’s what a close friend is for! Who else can you admit some of your most embarrassing moments to without turning bright red?

When you’re young, it can seem so much easier to make friends. According to this advice, you don’t even have to vary that far from your old techniques. After all, at the end of the day, the goal is to get to know the other person.

How can you do that without taking the time to ask a few questions? That’s all this person was trying to do. Whether it was effective or not, a bar-goer surely remembered the OP, who asked them if they had a favorite dinosaur.

When you’re still in middle school or high school, you have a lot of time to see your friends before, after, and maybe even during class.

You don’t always have to necessarily have a class with them either. All you have to do is make sure that you see each other from time to time. If you’re lucky, you’ll see them during some moments you don’t have together, such as a smile through a window as you pass by.

When you have a lot of friends or even just a few, you probably want to make sure you use some of your free time to stay in touch with them.

However, there are times when it just takes a lot out of you to entertain or even hang out with other people. In those moments, you just need a little time to recharge your social battery before you’re ready again. This is something this person is glad their friends understand.

There are some people that you start a friendship with over a certain hobby, common interest, or even a responsibility like a school or work project.

Still, this doesn’t mean that everyone you know will like all the same things as you. Maybe you have some friends that are your go-to group when you want to go out one night while another is who you call on when you want to stay in and watch movies.

Some things, you’ll always look forward to in your day. Perhaps you look forward to your lunch break or even the chance to come home to your partner at the end of the day.

For this person, it was the chance to connect with their friend. Since you can use Facetime, there’s no need to wait until you can see each other in person too. Could you keep a smile off your face in a moment like this?

When you want to keep up a friendship, what do you do? Most people turn towards frequently reaching out to make sure they have time to connect with friends.

If life gets busy and you don’t have time for social engagements, though, do you have to kiss all those friendships goodbye? Well, not actually. There are some friends that you can reach out to after ages — yet you’re able to pick right back up where you left off.

Having a best friend is great. You probably want the best for them too and make sure to root them on when you can. Plus, your friends can make you laugh.

On the contrary, why shouldn’t you have this same level of esteem for yourself, too? Even when their friends are busy, Twitter users like this one can make themselves laugh when they’re alone for the moment.

There are certain things that just aren’t as popular as they once were. Sure, people still call each other all the time but texting has become much more common.

If you’re going to take a phone call from someone just to talk, it better be someone important. In fact, this Twitter user could only think of two people that they’d pick up the phone for. That included their bestie and the love of their life.

When you really love someone, it can seem like anything they do is endearing. This is just as true for platonic love as it is for romantic love.

Sofia here doesn’t have to see too much to be impressed by her friends. She’s just happy to see them and, as a matter of fact, isn’t afraid to share how much she loves them either.

As we’ve gone over a few times now, there are simply times when you’re not able to spend as much time with your friends as you’d like to.

It isn’t anything malicious either — sometimes life just gets in the way. However, that doesn’t mean some friends don’t really make sure to prioritize some time together. Even if it’s just a short text, they want to make sure you know they’re still thinking about you.

On the other hand, your friendship doesn’t always hinge on these moments of reaching out. You won’t necessarily lose everyone just for being busy.

There are plenty of friends in which you can spend some time apart before coming back to the conversation months down the road. There’s no lull in the conversation when you come back either, it’s just like you never left!

When you lose a friend because of a falling out or an argument — or you simply drifted apart — it can hurt. You’re losing a relationship that was important to you, after all.

As this person put it, though, you aren’t going to lose friends in abrupt ways like an unexpected falling out when you have a strong friendship in which you can communicate. This is a great way to put things into perspective when you’re feeling rough.

There are some days that you just need someone to let it all out to. Otherwise, you might feel like you’re just going to explode with everything going on.

This a great time to call up a friend and give yourself and them a chance to vent about the time since you last spoke. As the conversation goes on, though, it might take a pretty positive turn. You both really do appreciate each other!

When you have a friend that isn’t really true and you can’t lean on, it can leave you a little guarded when it comes to friendships in the future.

Yet, some new friends come along with a certain determination to make you open up. When you finally do and fall into an equal and loving friendship with that person, you might find that it’s a breath of fresh air after dealing with someone less-than-stellar for so long.

There are days where everything really can seem gray, as the song goes. On those days, what are you possibly supposed to do that can lift your spirits and get you going?

For this person, all they need is a trip to their friends. A few hours with their loved ones and suddenly, things seem a little more hopeful than they did earlier in the day. That’s a sign of a pretty strong friendship.

When you lose a friend permanently, it’s something that’s really hard to deal with. In those cases, the memory of them can still stay alive.

This person was at a loss but something their therapist said really resonated with them. While they may not spend another day with their friend, they’ll carry their impact with them every day moving forward — and that’s definitely worth something.

Sometimes, you want to do more than just give your friend a kind word. Those are great tokens of friendship but not your only option.

At some points in your friendship, you might want to offer your friend something more material. On those nights, maybe, like this person, you have to really insist to your friend that tonight is your treat. This picture sums up the feeling pretty well.

There are times when things just don’t go your way. Sometimes, even when you try your best, you don’t nail that test you were hoping to ace.

Of course, there are some things that can help you get out of a bad mood. There are times when all you need is someone to relate to. While you wouldn’t wish it on them, at least this person had someone else to share their academic stress with.

You don’t have to always be busy every single time you see your best friend. If you hang out often, it might be hard to even do that!

Not to mention, there are times that you just need to chill out. However, you don’t necessarily want to be alone. Sometimes, doing nothing with your best friend is the best thing you can do for your friendship that day. This day doesn’t look too bad, actually!

There are certain moments in life in which you’d hope your friends come to your support, even if it’s something small and every day.

For instance, if you post a new picture on social media, you might hope that your friends toss a few likes your way. Of course, some real friends are there to go above and beyond to support you. In reality, this scene might be unnerving but we get the sentiment.