National Best Friends Day is depressing

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June 8th is National Best Friend or Best Friends Day. We don't know how the "holiday" started but we know you don't need an excuse to celebrate your closest friend or buddies. After all, your bestie has been by your side rain or shine!

Depressing because I don't have a best friend, in fact I don't have a friend at all. My last friend was a guy who wanted to have sex with me, he was always begging me to kiss him and trying to touch me, then he wrote me a long letter begging me to be his girlfriend and I got uncomfortable enough to ask him to leave. I haven't had a friend since then.

There's always the hug machine that Temple Grandin made for herself. Serves the same purpose but it doesn't stab you in the back, put you down, and it's available on your schedule.

Sounds like another celebratory day dreamed up by the greeting card companies to sell more cards.

Mother's Day, Father's Day - yes, they made you and raised you.

National Best Friends Day... WTF? I'd rather have National Raspberry Pie Appreciation Day or something like that.

Yeah, I saw that posted all over Facebook yesterday. My girlfriend tagged her best friend. I don't have a particular individual who I can say is my best friend.

When I was younger, I considered one friend to be my best friend but I found out indirectly back when we were teens and again more recently that they've considered various other people to be their best friend over all these years we've known each other. The more recent discovery was from Facebook posts. I guess people still don't realize that other people can see your conversations. (In fact, Facebook seems to think you would want to read anything two of your friends are saying to each other and just toss it at you.)

In my nearly 44 years, I still have not come across anyone who "gets" me. The sad part of it is I don't realize they don't until they pull away or make some sort of declaration that they don't understand me and question my motives, and then everybody's feelings are hurt. I think the closest I will ever come is those people who, even though they don't "get" me, have come to realize my motives aren't dubious and I have a place in their world as a "friend" but I think becoming someone's "BFF" or "soulmate" or whatever is extremely unlikely.