What I Am Looking For in a Friend

[Gary Freedman]

These are the qualities that I am looking for in a friend. Am I being too picky? Maybe that's why I currently don't have any friends!

If you have these qualities maybe we should hook up online.

(A) Warm, outgoing, attentive to others, kindly, easy-going, participating, likes people

(B) Abstract-thinking, more intelligent, bright, higher general mental capacity, fast learner

(C) Emotionally stable, adaptive, mature, faces reality calmly

(E) Dominant, forceful, assertive, aggressive, competitive, stubborn, bossy

(F) Lively, animated, spontaneous, enthusiastic, happy go lucky, cheerful, expressive, impulsive

(G) Rule-conscious, dutiful, conscientious, conforming, moralistic, staid, rule bound

(H) Socially bold, venturesome, thick skinned, uninhibited

(I) Sensitive, aesthetic, sentimental, tender minded, intuitive, refined

(L) Vigilant, suspicious, skeptical, distrustful, oppositional

(M) Abstract, imaginative, absent minded, impractical, absorbed in ideas

(N) Private, discreet, nondisclosing, shrewd, polished, worldly, astute, diplomatic

(O) Apprehensive, self doubting, worried, guilt prone, insecure, worrying, self blaming

(Q1) Open to change, experimental, liberal, analytical, critical, free thinking, flexibility

(Q2) Self-reliant, solitary, resourceful, individualistic, self sufficient

(Q3) Perfectionistic, organized, compulsive, self-disciplined, socially precise, exacting will power, control, self-sentimental

(Q4) Tense, high energy, impatient, driven, frustrated, over wrought, time driven.