9 Types Of Friends That Add Value To Your Life

As we go through the motion of life, it is inevitable that we run into people with all sorts of weird and wacky characters. Some will add value to your life, while others are clearly people that you shouldn’t get too familiar with.

Whatever the case, it is the people around you that makes life colorful… even when they have bad intentions.

The real challenge here is identifying what types of friends actually makes your life better, easier, and basically more enjoyable.

Here is a list of the best types of friends to have around you. If you don’t have all of them, it’s about time you seek them out.

1) The confidant

There will always be times when you are thrilled at happiness and downcast with misery.

The confidant is the person who you can call up and just talk about anything and everything. And you are this comfortable telling him your darkest secrets because you can trust him not to judge you.

Usually, a confidant would be someone who you have know for decades. A lot of times, there are friends with whom you knew since childhood.

They are friends with you out of fate. And are not sticking around just because you are rich or beautiful.

2) The Geek

The geek used to be a personality that gets ridiculed at up to the end of the last century.

But ever since the internet took over the world, and now with mobile technology, geeks are in very high demand both at work and at play. That’s without mentioned how women are positively taking to them these days.

You need his expertise these days to do a variety of stuff. Including jailbreaking your iPhone, configuring your wireless router, coding your website, informing you for cool gadgets that make you life easier, etc.

I personally rate that geeks as the most valuable friends to have around currently.

They are just so knowledgeable on so much cool tech stuff.

3) The outgoing fun seeker

There will always be times where we are too lethargic to go out… yet feel that going out is the right thing to do. It’s at least as productive as rotting at home.

Outgoing friends are often perpetually single because having partners tie them down is not a life commandment they live by. And if they are attached, they are often together with partners who have no issue with leaving them alone to do their own things.

They are the type of people that you coincidentally run into the most number of times at clubs and night spots.

You need such friends around you so that you know where the party is whenever you call at any time of the day. And whenever all your friends have abandoned you on a particular night, you still have this light source at the end of the tunnel to fall back on.

Even better. Whenever you want to attend a weird event that no one else wishes to accompany you too, this friend will find it tough to turn it down as long as he don’t have another party to attend.

The only drawback of such friends is that you seldom build a strong bond together.

It’s not that you don’t try knowing them better. It’s just that they almost never open themselves up to others.

4) The hardcore traveler

I believe that most people will love to travel in their free time. And a lot of times, they just cannot travel due to a lack of companionship or a lack of know-how.

A frequent traveler can be a very valuable resource to have in your social circle.

You can garner confidence in traveling alone just from talking to them about their recent trips. And they are so familiar with places that you would like to visit that you might even feel a little embarrassed at your lack of travel exposure.

The best part is that they find it hard to turn down travel opportunities. Just because they had already visited your target destination countless times does not mean that they’d turn you down. In fact, they somehow love it even better!

There nothing more valuable when traveling than to have someone “in the know” on your side.

So if there is this place in Asia or Europe that you’d like to fly to, it is in their nature to genuinely look into their schedule to find out if they can tag along with you.

And if they can make it, you can expect them to meticulously plan an interesting and adventurous itinerary for the whole travel group.

That’s without mentioning their inside knowledge on how to buy the cheapest flights and book the best value accommodations.

5) The adult

This is the guy or gal that always throws a wet blanket over all the fun.

Yet although we might admittedly find some of their parenting antics annoying, there’s always a part of us that appreciate their good intentions. It can sometimes make good comedy too.

We always need people around us to remind us of what’s “right”. They voluntarily take on the responsibility of looking out for everyone including doing things like:

• telling us that we are partying too late
• reminding us not to drive after drinking
• how we shouldn’t do certain stuff in case out other halves get unhappy
• etc

Although they are usually not the most popular in social groups, everyone usually stands up for them without hesitation when they get into trouble. Because intuitively, people understand how crucial role they play in social groups. That is a good reflection of how much people value the adult.

6) The done-it-all

This is a friend who is often not part of your social group. You probably got to know him/her at work, classes you attended on your own, business networking sessions, etc.

He/she is not in your social groups simply because he is either much older or have outgrown the stage of life that you are already in.

He/she is the person who has already accomplished what you are looking to accomplish for yourself. And this makes this individual a perfect mentor to guide you along your road to success.

When you find someone like this who is willing to be acquainted with you, just be careful not to behave like a sponge. They are hard to come by in life and the last thing you want to do is to turn them off.

His experience and advice can be invaluable especially if you thinking about starting a business.

7) The office buddy

It’s a shame that our best friends in the office are seldom integrated into our social groups outside work.

Everyone will have a best friend at work unless he or she is anti-social. This is the person you have lunch with and spread fun gossip about the place. He/she makes the sadistic workplace that little more interesting and tolerable.

What’s more, they are the perfect person to verify an alibi when you are late to work.

The problem is that when you spend 8 hours a day with someone at the office, you don’t always want to spend more time together after office hours. This makes building the relationship outside the office a very tough goal to achieve.

And you’d probably want to keep the buddy relationship fresh in the office. You could being risking the fun between you and have it go stale should you spend more time together outside the workplace.

This why you need such a person as a friend… yet want to avoid becoming too close as a friend…

8) The exercise freak

You’d probably agree that 9 and a half out of 10 friends don’t workout or do any form of exercise at all. And you’d probably also know that exercise is good for you unless you have an alien allergy to it.

You need this guy in your contacts so that you can get tips on bodyweight workouts and cardio. You can also tag along to his exercise schedule whenever you are free.

Exercise freaks are often very enthusiastic about having people join them on their runs and sessions in the gym. They get to display how fit they are and get to play the role of teacher as well.

If there is no one in your social circle who exercises often, you might never be able to motivate yourself to get off your butt. Having no company is one of the most overused excuses people tell themselves to avoid breaking a sweat.

At least having this guy around always leaves you an option of burning off some of that belly fat should you get into the mood.

And who knows. You might be one of those people who just cannot stop exercising once you get into the zone. All you need is someone to push you into that zone.

9) The film maker

You can admit it. We are all vain. And we love to have our candid photos taken and videos shot… unless we appear ugly in them.

And what better than to have someone document your life for you and send you everything via instant messenger.

Some people just have a knack of pulling out their cameras all the time… snapping at anything and everything that moves…

They then go back home and share everything with friends on social media and messenger. Some people might say that these “film makers” have nothing better to do with their lives.

But quietly, a lot of people also appreciate the pictures and videos being taken. This is so that they can look back one day and smile over it.

Memories are priceless. And what better than to have someone snapping away without having to pay for the service.