Seven Types of Heroines’ Friends

      Some have said that the human life is like a show in which there are heroes, heroines, villains, maids and so on, and that, the characters which cannot be forgotten are the heroes’ and heroines’ friends. As a young lady, I imagine my readers to be heroines, and I think that the great companions and good friends in a heroine’s life can be categorized into seven types in the same ways as Snow White and Seven Dwarves. Let me show you each type of friends from number one to number seven.
         As a heroine, your Number 1 is “A Close Friend”. Because her and your life patterns and hers are very similar, she is the one who can comprehend you well. You study and work together. You both love the same Korean romantic series. You meet the wolf guys, eat the food with unpleasant taste at the same canteen, and may have no parking lot in front of the office, identically. Your close and friend you can understand whatever each other likes and doesn’t like. 
       The Number 2 for a heroine is “An Advising Friend”. She is an experienced person who will advise and help you when you are in trouble. Perhaps she is a senior in your major or in your office. She could be called an official mentor for you. You can learn many things from her. Be polite and humble to her, and save her phone number in your first list. In times of doubt and crisis, she can be your Doraemon*.
        As for Number 3, “An Amusing Friend” is really in need for a heroine. Although you cannot count on anything serious from the amusing friend, she will make you laugh whenever you are sad. She is as a royal jester who makes the heroine happy. Sometimes, when you meet problems, you may not want anyone to tell you how to solve the problem. But you just want someone to make your brain clear enough to seek a solution of the problem on your own, and your amusing friend can do this for you. 

        After you have a senior friend, you should have “A Junior Friend” as number 4. To her, you can transfer your good personal philosophies. Moreover, she is like a reflection, which reflects yourself when you were as young as she is now. She reminds you of how innocent you were in the past and how you have improved and matured. On the other hand, she reminds you of how spirited you were yesterday and how spiritless you are today. In fact, You will not be able to get too old over the years because your junior friend will drag you to sing at the karaoke bar or update new fashion trends to you.
         A heroine should not missed Number 5 friend, “A Boy Friend. A boy friend is very important. As it is said, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Occasionally, the Venus people want some good advice from the Mars people as a reference.  For instance, whether you should or shouldn’t invite a man first on the second date, or what a nice birthday gift for your boyfriend would be. One thing that you should be careful about, though, is that do not change his status from “a boy friend” to “a boyfriend”. Otherwise, you may lose both your friendship and a relationship.
         As a heroine, Number 6 is “A Friend from the Opposite World”. You might be bored if every day you meet friends having similar life patterns, so the way to make your life more colorful is to have some friends from the opposite world. Try to contact your friends from when you were in high school or before you studied in the university. Their majors, jobs and lives are now varied--engineer, dentist, artist, businessman, gay, straight, playboy, and even pregnant mom. You will be excited and feel different atmospheres in your reunions.
        Last but not least for a heroine is Number 7, “An Old Friend”. There is a case of a couple of old friends. She is neat but he is naughty. They studied in the same primary and secondary schools for twelve years. Because their mothers are buddies, she, with her mom, usually visits his house. Although they are not intimate, they are concerned about each other. When his dog dies and he cries, she is the only one who understands why. This is because they have seen the pet since it was a puppy. An old friend is more valuable than any diaries, and can reflect your past better than every big photo album in your living room.
       CONGRATULATIONS, if you have all groups of a heroine’s friends. However, to have friends, you have to be friends. You are heroine in your life but don’t forget to be heroine’s friend in your friends’ lives.

*Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise. The series is about an earless robotic catnamed Doraemon, who travels back in the time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon