Very early this morning I woke up to pounding on the front door. It turns out to be an sobbing aquaintance finding a place to crash because her bf kicked her out of his place (a neighboring apt), due to a heated argument and violence on her part. Of course, I let her crash at my place, it doesn't take much effort on my part. I guess I felt sorry for her, but not too much.

What I really don't get is how she always comes around when she needs help. I call her an aquaintance for this sole reason. Never will she contact me just to talk or hang out like friends. Our only contact is if she needs help on hw, needs to borrow notes, snowboarding gear, clothes, etc. Its a constant need-based relationship that I don't care for. We don't have anything in common, besides living in the same dorm freshman year. She probably considers me a friend, cuz not even her own friends would pick her up 2 in the morning. Gee, I wonder why?

This is where I draw the line between friend and aquaintance. Aquaintances are ppl you might say hi to, not care for, and you only know them out of neccessity. Friends are ppl who WANT to know you, take time out of their day to contact you for no purpose, and geniunely give a damn about you -- not in the stalker kind of way. Its easy to turn some aquaintances into friends if you take the time, effort, and care into it. But there's some ppl who I would never want as friends, especially the folks who only know how to use and never give back.