What Type of Friend Are YOU?

This post is inspired by my Good friend Karen @karensuestudios.

I have had many friends in my life. Each person has brought something different to my journey and has helped me to get through many trials and tribulations as well as helped me to create BEAUTIFUL memories. I mean what else are friends for right? Well, it really depends on the type of friend someone is. Here's what i mean.

I've discovered 3 categories of friends. These categories are a blanket that includes the major features that a friend has to offer as far as their overall contribution to my life.

1. THE ACCOMPLICE
   The accomplice is the first friend we encounter and become ourselves. This is the ride or die friend who is most likely to be sitting inside of the police car with you. As an accomplice you are down for the cause. If your friend wants to light themself in fire, you will be the one officiating the hair spray and lighter. You are the fun friend that thinks of making memories first and paying the consequences second.

2. THE PARENT
   The parent friend is exactly what it sounds like. Your police your friends as tell them when ish is not appropriate. When they want to jump off the balcony, you remind them of how much it costs to go to the hospital, plus the pain and oh. You won't be able to fit into your tux at prom with a cast on. This friend helps you start it of trouble...if you care to listen and vice versa.

3. THE COLLEAGUE
   As the colleague, you encourage the personal and professional growth of your friends through your own example and the help that you give to your friends that are headed towards the same or similar things. If you manage social media and your friend has a business, you will most likely help them with their social media because the benefit in the end would help you both. If you I'll looking for a way to personally grow and your friend possesses this quality, they will teach you how to acquire it.

As we go through life we meet different types of friends and we also become different types of friends. There was a time where I was the accomplice. We usually become accomplices earlier in our lives when we are much more Curious and brave and fearless and stupid. As we grow up and realize the dangers that lie in life and we become responsible, we become the parent friend because we've seen or felt the hurt and we want to alleviate the misery for others. It is usually later in life when you find those friendships that are mutually beneficial and a professional and personal way which allow you to grow beyond your normal limitations and become the best version of yourself. You start to get into business ventures with your friends and find pleasure in their success as well as your own.

I chose to dedicate this post to my good friend Karen because not only is she the colleague, she is the parent who told me to get off my ass and start making posts. It was exactly what I needed to hear and here I am.

Evaluate yourself right now and comment which type of friend you think you are! I think I am a parent and colleague mostly. There's still a little accomplice left in me though. ;)