When i first read the question, i thought “well imagine spending your days with just 1 person… Wouldn’t it be better to have a more diverse group of friends?”. But the thing is, at the moment i already have a few really good friends. I didn’t choose those friends because they were ideal, but in the given circumstances/surroundings, i liked those people most. But they are still very different from me. And this is getting painfully obvious (to me) now that we’re getting older (college aged now, know each other more than half our lives). Each person is becoming “his own man”. So yes, those are friends for life, but still i can’t talk about certain ideas/thoughts i have. Ironically, i met a community here full of people i’ve never met which think in much the same way i’m doing lately.
tl;dr: i already have good friends and it’s okay-ish if you want to cruise through life, but to have a real soul mate, that’s what i want.