"Besties"

In a recent conversation, a friend of mine used the word "best" friend when referring to one of her friends. When I repeated the word in the conversation, just to see how it sounded, it sounded incredibly foreign coming out of my mouth. As I've aged, the "best" friend image has escaped me. I consider just about everyone I choose to spend time with as, well, friends. I don't really regard one as a best friend, but maybe that's just me. To me, the best friend image was only around when I was younger. Then, the best friend was someone I spent just about all my time with, which I don't do now that I'm older and have more going on in my life. I randomly, from time to time, see several people. This, then reminded me of relationships. One person cannot be our sole everything-- other people must fill in the gaps. The person we are dating cannot possibly fulfill our everything. They come close, but are designed to fall a little short because they are different than we are.