What is the measure of a good friend?

I had a wonderful cyber-chat with an old friend today. Not old as in age, old as in the number of years we have known each other. It always amazes me at how much we have to talk about even though we have lived in different countries for such a long time. She married when she was in her 20's and her children are now teenagers. I married when I turned 30 and mine are still babies.... We are in different stages of life, yet we are in the same place...
Quite often we gossip, but mostly we just chat. She helps me to destress after or before (haha!) a long day or when I just need a chat. There are no pretences or airs and flairs.... just honest-to-goodness friendship and for this I am grateful. She just is a good friend. Today she commented on my current experience with FB friends: What's sitting in your heart if you see only the points to be criticised rather than those to be shouted from the rooftops as blessings or worse, see the need to criticise where there none- or to do so because of your own insecurities

So then what is the measure of a good friend? For me, it is someone who knows me and knows that I am imperfect, a work in progress - God's work in progress. And loves me just the same....