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I just realized about 5 minutes ago, that personality and levels of sensitivity play a very important role in the success of a relationship, not only in the boy-girl sense, but also with platonic friendships as well.

Some people value attention above everything else, some value appearance, some value communication, some value physical closeness, some value sucess, drive, and ambition, and many other things, and some, like me, value trust, over everything else.

Argue all you may, but there is no one attribute more important than another. It all depends on your own personality, your upbringing, events that have shaped your life, influences from people who step in and out of your life, etc, and most importantly, that's what makes you your own unique person.

Maybe the key to a solid friendship or relationship is to understand that no two people are the same in this world. Heck, you can come awfully close, but you can never be two exact peas in a pod. There will always be something that seperates you from the other person, or a little thing that annoys you to no end. To understand that there are certain things that you will never understand about a friend or a partner, and ultimately, NOT trying to analyze or rationalize those differences.

And that, is where many (including myself, many times over) fail. Because, in my opinion, that is the hardest (and also most dangerous) part of intimate social interactions.