YOUR FRIENDS. Meeting people can be easy - getting to know them well enough is the tricky part, and I believe I never get to know someone half as well as I should until I've met their friends. I don't really look for anything specific in a person, it's really just the "sum of the parts" and how well they work together that counts.I do admire - and aspire to - traits like patience, respect, integrity, and loyalty... but nobody's perfect, least of all me, so I think the most important thing is an open mind. ..