Separation between the mates

Just an observation: In life we have a lot of 'mates'. There are schoolmates, workingmates, housemates, roomates, goodmates, futsalmates, bandmates, etc etc.

kiranya 'mates' are people who we have something in common la kan? Futsalmates are people who play futsal with us. Workingmates are people who work with us, etc.

Also an observation: When there is one person being two or three kinds of 'mates', boleh ke??

Of course la boleh you would say. Dah kalau dia kawan kita and dia main futsal dengan kita. Thats being a mate(friend) and futsal mate already right??

But katakanlah ada kawan tu main futsal dengan kita, kita lagi anggap dia as 'futsal mate' or 'mate' (friend)??

This is what I mean by the separation of the mates.

Sometimes (not all the time), there are some people who think of someone as some kind of mate rather than a friend. We can agree that a friend is the most general kind of 'mate'. However, ada some people yang anggap setengah kawan tu 'only as a bandmate' or 'only someone yang pergi CC dengan dia'. This is the kind of separation I have been seeing, in that the only thing they will talk about is the thing they have in common, and nothing else.

And sometimes, as usual, I got some questions:

Boleh ke a good friend guarantee you in becoming a good housemate?

Boleh ke a working mate become your friend? Or it wouldn't happen?

Kita really kisah ke pasal orang yang main futsal dengan kita? Or kita just geng dengan dia sebab nak main futsal?

Is this a good thing or bad thing?

Should this change?

Well, apapepun this is something that I have been seeing fo quite a long time. It could be good, or could be bad. Maybe some things are better left how they are right? Apapepun, in the end I think although there is a kind of separation between the mates, try as hard as you can to be a good friend to them. That is the most basic thing, and if you fail to be any other kind of mate, you are still friends.