I am not your Best Friend

I've been feeling the need to address this topic for a while now. I have met great people here at school. Theres people who I can have great conversations with all day. But with those conversations, there are some who I assume don't encounter good conversations often and become slightly possessive over me. They label me as "best friend". This is not a problem, I like the idea of best friend but its the implication of the obligations that sway me away.

Although I have just met you, you have implied that I must converse with you frequently, be there in your bad times, continue to keep you smiling, get very close with you, eventually meet your family and always support you. . . but what if I just like to have good conversations. I've been told I have a magnetic persona but the irony is I hate being attached to others. Nevertheless, I hate being forced to do things.

If you truly want to be a good friend of mines, respect my space and isolation. MY good friend Khalfani (his blog is dope, check it out) has a series of poems entitled "Isolation vs Intimacy". In these poems he is talking about being single versus involved but a quote from his poem is relevant here . HE says "I was only intimate with my isolation"....I like being by my self. I only have 1 real best friend [Auriel Rucker], 5 real male friends [Joe, Kaylen, Asia, Kimbro, and Akil] and alot of female friends [Check out one of their blogs] (no assumptions please). They all know that Im innately a loner. So If you are attempting to be a good friend of mines first respect my isolation; dont force me to be close with you. It will only push me away...Shouts out to all my true friends!!