I read somewhere that the average person has like two close friends, and that generally people just don't have time for more than three. I have about four friends, all of which I have known 15 years or longer, but I only see one regularly, one less often, and the other two rarely (they don't live in the same state anymore). We try to meet up once a year or so for a hippy festival or something, and we keep in touch with email and stuff.

My definition of 'friend' might not be the same as someone else's, of course. Everyone probably defines it differently. I count as friends the people that, if I got desperate and asked them for a few thousand bucks or a kidney or a place to stay for six months, they'd help me out, and vice versa.