In keeping with the language of the internet age, let's hear it for BFFL! Here "BFFL" stands for 'Best Friends For Life'. That is a deeper commitment than your average BFF (Best Friend Forever). You see, BFFs come and go with the seasons. A BFFL? Now that's someone who'll be there for the long haul--the ups, the downs, and all those messy middle bits in between. It's shared experiences Moral Of the Story: Most of us are bound up inextricably with others, we don't act just for ourselves friendships begin to show their age, and life weathers them like seawater battleships going to pieces, covered sea-bottom slime.