What quality do you value most in a friend?

I feel that I know how to be a friend but honestly don’t have many or any friends. I have associates and contemporaries but really only one friend and she is on the opposite side of the country. A person that is around for good times and seems to always need a favor but desert you in a time of stress and always has an excuse when you need help is not a friend. I am always the person who is willing to help or be a shoulder to cry on but haven’t found in another and at 57 I really have stopped trying.

Wow this really isn’t the way the algorithm wanted this to be answered.