I'm not talking about superficial things like food or sports. I'm talking about something deeper than that. Real friends share themselves in such a way that the happiness of one depends on the fulfilling of the deepest longing of the other. Real friendship with Jesus means our own happiness is bound up with the fulfillment of Jesus' deepest desires. And Jesus' deepest desire is the reconciliation of every human being to himself and to each other.
Friends speak their minds to each other openly, fully, and without fear.
Real friends don't hold their true feelings back. Their relationship is based on what they truly expect of each other and think about one another. To be a friend of Jesus means we don't hold back in our prayer life. We lay it all out before him. Our anger our guilt our frustration our fear our doubt.