Look I’ve had good friends but recently I’ve been hanging around the less that savory ones and there are days when I grow tired of it.
Is it a crime if by ‘best friend’, I assumed it’s time I finally set out for that girl?

After all, good piece of courting/dating advice is to always start out as good friends.
The only problem is I barely have a single candidate.
Why assume that I find this problematic? You wanna be a woman like that? Go ahead. I don’t see why I’m a bastard though if I say I don’t fall in love with the louder and more independent types.
And what makes you think that the girl I’m looking for doesn’t care about exploring life or their own potential? What if their own potential lies in being good wives and mothers?
See, here’s the problem I’m starting to sense here with your perspective. I would go as far as to say that I’m the one here who is truly about diversity and freedom. Why? Because I believe that girl should be what she wants to be regardless of what either feminists or conservatives say. If they wanna be a senator. Good for them. If they wanna be a stay-at-home-mom. Good for them. It is their CHOICE.
The kind of girl I want is the type who would
want to be my wife, the mother of my kids, and be the object of my devoted protection. I don’t want all the girls in the world to be like that. I just want to find a single one who would choose that path.
Look I have a sister who would HATE to be that girl but do I HATE my sister? Heck no. You can be like her.
You wanna be an Amelia Earhart? I’ll support you but I won’t fall in you love with you. They’re just not my type and never will be.
Okay that’s it. If somebody assumes me immature one more time, I’m calling lack of charity. You want immature? Try the brats my brother hangs with who think the only way to bring the best out of somebody they think that needs fixing is through trolling them till they lose it.
There is no imbalance. I just happen to be surrounded at times with a lot of people who have so much ego, even you would suffocate.
The difference between me and them though is that I don’t desire to be some evil overlord. I don’t boast. I’m just tired of being squashed and will stop when I got no more giant feet wanting to step on me. Therefore, I wouldn’t be quick to assume I’ve been ‘influenced’ by their type.