FRIEND or FROVE?

So you have friends, no? At least you think you do. How do we define a friend NOW-A-DAYS?(BTW that is my LEAST favorite saying in the world. WTF is now-a-days?) We all have "friends" we do certain things with. Someone you shop with, someone you go to concerts with, someone you drink with, etc. But how do you truly count your "friends"? Certainly not by the 647 friends you have on facebook, or the 289 friends in your phone contacts.

I've never had a lot of friends, and I've always been very fast to cut people out of my life who do something that, to me, makes them not a good friend. But maybe I have it all wrong. My boyfriend has TONS of "friends." He'll say, "I'm going out with my really good friend Bobby." I'm like, "WHO, who the hell is Bobby? We've been together almost a year, and I don't know this person who is your 'really good friend'? " His response is, "Babe, you need to get some friends".

I think to myself, maybe I don't want "friends". I don't want a million people I could use to hang out with. They aren't people you can open up to, or people who you can truly rely on. They are just "fun friends". Slightly more than an acquaintance. Perhaps the word "friend" is the issue. It's too comprehensive. It doesn't allow us to differentiate between facebook friends, fun friends, and true friends. So I've decided, I'm creating a word for a TRUE friend. A GREAT friend. A friend that loves you. A friend you love. A FROVE. And I'll tell you how you know if you have a true frove: when they do shit for you that they really don't want to do. I hate when people say, "I know who my friends are because they'd be there for me in a serious time of need." Yeah, well, wake up. If you were dying, if your mother was dying, if you were contemplating suicide, declaring bankruptcy, even your acquaintances would be there for you. Everyone feels bad for "someone in need" and everyone feels either good for helping, or guilty if they don't help "someone in need". Really, it's the times when you are moving, when you need someone to read a boring article you wrote, when you need a ride in the middle of the night, when you want to complain about the way you broke your nail for an hour, etc., THOSE are the times that you can really tell who is your frove. When it would be so easy to make an excuse, or not answer their phone, a frove comes through. No one WANTS to help someone move, no one WANTS to listen to your boring ass article, drive 30 min away at 3 AM to pick your ass up, or hear you complain about something so fricken futile. But your frove, your frove will do it. They do it because they love you and they do it because you'd do it for them.

So what would you rather have, 1,000 acquaintances?

100 friends?

Or 1
frove.