1. Very similar in some ways, very different in others. Known him for 16 years, we met at swimming lessons when we were 3 years old. Didn't really become friends with him until the start of junior school... Our school is prep-12 so we were friends right through from the start of school to the end of school... I think we both influenced each others development a great deal over the years... He's a quiet guy, I'm fairly quiet and introverted most of the time, but around him I'm usually the talkative one... He's also very organized and likes everything to be settled... if you know the MBTI he's definitely an ISTJ. I've done just about everything with him now that I think about it, we were in a band for a year back in 05-06... We were in junior school and senior school choir, and the chamber choir together, we've done a lot of shit over the internet together as well... including a bit of online gaming and mmorpgs... I was always into that more than he was though back in the day... Oh and the schemes and plans we came up with when we were younger.... ahahaha.... We'll always be friends, but he certainly does have his quirks, he's very private and emotionally closed off... doesn't share his feelings ect... I'm probably one of the people he's shared the most with in terms of his inner thoughts and feelings, and it hasn't been all that much... some people will share as much after a few drinks... let alone 16 years...
Person 2: Also similar to me in some ways and very different in others... Person 2 is extremely friendly, caring and polite. Compliments others all the time, speaks formally, not a mean spirited bone in his body... If I met him today I would probably think he was insincere / fake... no one can truly be that kind / caring to others. But he actually is that kind... I met him when he moved to my school in year 4. He left at the end of year 5 but I've been friends with him since. His family are christian and his parents are rather traditional, they go to church on sunday... say grace, ect... He has 3 siblings, so there always seems to be a lot going on at his place. It's pretty clear that his ubringing has something to do with the way he is so polite... and that's one way we are quite different. I don't hand out compliments that easily... He's an arts student and I'm a science student, but I have broad interests, so we're both interested in some of the same stuff, like philosophy. He would be very easy to manipulate, it is very hard for him to say no to people, and he always assumes the best in others. We are similar in that we are both quite a bit more interested in the world around us and abstract ideas than most people. We are different mainly in personality, he's extremely agreeable... I seem far more direct, brash and cold around him than I usually feel...
Person 3: Again similar in many ways, different in many.
Person 3 is Asian, but he is not stereotypically asian at all..., not that there's anything wrong with that, a lot of my other friends are much more stereotypically asian
He has perfect pitch and his life is mainly music, it always seems to have been. I knew him since year 7 when we started highschool together, but I never really got to know him until around year 10, and we became good friends by around year 11. He has perfect pitch, and writes a lot about music, he is actually doing music industry as his degree, so he's pretty serious about it. He has an interesting taste in music too... everything from Madonna to heavy metal...
thats one way we are similar, we both have very good ears and really enjoy playing and writing music... He also seems to be more introspective and interested in his own mind than the vast majority of people, which could also be said about me.
All of my closest friends have some things in common with me that most people don't, and that's why we're drawn to each other, but none of them are actually "very similar" to me, I have never met anyone I would say is very similar to me... Some of my newer friends at uni actually are a little more similar to me than my closest friends, but that's to be expected I guess, since we are all doing the same subjects and course ect...