My Personal Experience Of Having Friends And Best Friends

During my high school career I was able to make lots of friendships, but had few close friendships. I was unable to have a large amount of girlfriends, because I did not feel a good connection with them. Instead, I hung out with a group of guys and had two girlfriends who had similar life stories. When I was sixteen I started working and that was something I enjoyed doing to make money. Once high school was over I felt like I had so much to look forward to. When college came around I didn’t see the same people every day and had to make new friends here at Anderson. This was challenging for me, because the dorms are full of females which was something that I have not been used to.

It is important to choose the right friends, good friends can take you wherever you want to go in life, and the wrong friends can be a disastrous decision. A quote from The Pact sums this up nicely, “Friendship can lift you up, strengthen and empower you, or break you down, weaken and defeat you.” (32) This is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people, and

Then there are the strategic friendships. These are friendships where they enjoy each other's company so long as there is an advantage from it. Then, there's the true friend. Not someone who is just like you, but someone who isn't you, but about whom you care about as much as you care about yourself. The sorrows of a true friend are your sorrows. Their joys are yours. It makes you more vulnerable should anything befall this person, but it's hugely strengthening too. Expanding into the life of another. Together you become larger, more clever, and more resilient. You share virtues and cancel out each other's defects. Friendship is the best part of

In my real life, my friends and I have shared a happy life for a long time. I have many good friends and I like them very much. They give me a courage and vigor. If I don’t have a friend I can’t enjoy my school life. I always have a lunch with them and we enjoy girl’s talking. When I have a problem I ask their advice. They think about it seriously with me and cheer me up. Friends are one of the most important things in my life.

Without friends life is lonely and isolated. Friends are important to share enjoyable activities with, companions with whom to share worries, people to rescue you in difficulty and to be comforted at times of stress. Additionally friendships have enormous developmental implications (Murray 2009). It helps the socialising process. Also, it promotes the natural move towards “greater independence” in adolescence (Murray 2009). It does this because when you depend on someone for so long you start to branch off on our own and stop depending on others like you used to. Adolescent friendships also provide a connection to others who are at the same stage (Murray 2009).

Experiences in life give us wisdom on what to expect and how to act in future circumstances. This friendship has impacted me because I regret opening up to people who don’t deserve me like that. It has taught me that even though people may be there for some things, they aren’t necessarily going to be there for the whole

Over four years, I have made, as well as, lost friends. We all need to grow and mature and sometimes others just do not want to follow that path with you and you end up growing apart.

My friends are a very big part of my life because they support and encourage me for everything I do. I used to be very quiet and unsocial. I had very few friends and didn’t like making new friends. I would just stay with the same group of friends every year, but slowly my friends were making new friends and no longer talking to me as much. As I grew older, I realized the importance of friendship and what being friendless can feel like.I felt like an outcast, so I started reaching out to more people. After joining band, I gained a lot of new friends who used to just be acquaintances. Since then, my friends have been a very good influence on me. They are very caring and help me with every obstacle I encounter. My friends are people who I can confide in; people who I am comfortable talking to. They accept me for who I am and never judge me. I would never ruin any friendship with my friends because they are too important to me. They have always been there for me and are very important people in life

As I grew up in high school, I realized I only need a couple of friends in my life. From the beginning of high school, this idea began to develop in my mind and will remain to do so through my post-secondary journey. I thought friendships involve being happy, supporting each other and accepting the person for who they are because no one is perfect. Expectations for

I gave up on making friends because I felt it was selfish of me to do so when I was needed so badly at home. The times I did get the courage enough to make friends I would go to their houses and I would boil with envy and jealousy. Their parents while very loose with their rules and many of my friends being very unruly children. None the less they were still parents. I often at times felt as though you were my peer and not my mother. I often at times felt betrayed by you because you were supposed to care for me and instead I spend my days caring for you and looking after you and your broken hearts that the many men of your past left in a shatter pile.

Having friends when you are in middle school and younger are exciting to have, but when you get older you realize you don’t need friends to keep you happy. I had numerous amount of friends back then. When I finished 7th grade my mom decided it was best to move away from the city. It was so heartbreaking to hear that we were moving. It was the end of the world because we didn’t know anything about where we were moving to. All of our friends since we had in kindergarten were going to be gone.

Ever since I was a child, I was always a little sheltered from the outside world. So, as you can imagine I did not have that many friends. I have always been a quiet person, I usually just keep to myself most of the time. Once, I started high school that is when I started to make friends, this was pretty important to me. Before I had friends, I basically thought that everyone was the same, I was so wrong. I met so many great people, they changed me so much, I went from staying home alone and reading all day to, hanging out with so many different people and going to many social events.

Personally I do not like meeting new people, it means you have to open up again and make a new bond. Also, you never know how the new person is, if they are either a true friend or they can go behind your back and lie to you. Will they come into your life and mess it up or shine with you? Friendships are extremely hard for me to make because as a little kid I use to tell everyone my problems and I would let anyone be my friend, I was honestly a very open child who was always happy. But when I went into elementary school I was always made fun of because of my weight and the way I looked. I was never good enough, for anyone to stick up for me. I was simply the joke of the school. I use to be very open, to anyone really I told my so called “friends” my problems and they always told my bullies which then, they would tease me about it and I would always ended up crying. I would basically open up to

For as long as I can remember I’ve had the same group of friends, but coming into high school I met a lot of new people. I met some of my best friends here and my boyfriend.I’ve reached out to a lot of different people I didn’t really expect to be friends with. I learned that you really can’t judge a book by a cover and that probably sounds cliche, but some of the people I thought I’d never get along with became some of my really good friends.

Through my experiences I have come to realize that there are basically three types of friends a person can have. There are friends that I call “sometimes” friends, these people appear to be your friend but only when you are face to face with them, and when you are not around them they act more like a foe. They are often referred to as two faced or a back stabber. These types of friends are not very reliable nor should they be trusted. Another type of friend a person can have, and the best kind, is a “true” friend. A true friend is someone you know you can always trust and rely on no matter what. The last type of friend is the “acquaintance”. These are the type of friends that you do not necessarily hate, but at the same time you do