My Reflection Of Friendship

Friendships change over time. Some people stay your friends forever others are only temporary. This essay shows how my friendships have changed between Elementary school and Middle school, between middle and high school, and how some have stayed the same over the course of my education.

John evolved into my best friend and, wrapping myself in his world, I disregarded the importance of my core group of friends. We reached interpersonal commitment and all of my time belonged to John. We went to events and hung out according to his time frame, with little consideration for my needs. All John said was “no, I don’t want to do that,” and I respected his decision. Looking

In the modern age friendship comes in many different shapes and sizes. There's the good and there's the bad. You might even find some types of friendships surprising, for example an "entrepreneurial relationship". In the book "Of Mice and Men" Lennie and George are friends, but not very good friends. George is unfortunately friends with Lennie for the wrong reasons.

The initiation came with our similarities in music and art. Complimenting one another in the taste of music we had, or in our drawings turned into compliments based on more personal subjects. With this came experimenting, asking about various subjects, mainly checking to see if we had more in common. Once we knew each other for a while we tried intensifying our relationship by dating. This ended in the termination of our romantic relationship. During the dating period, we did say, “I love you.” There was a short downfall in the middle of our friendship because of the breakup, leading to the avoidance of one another for a few weeks. Even with the severed romantic relationship, we managed to keep our friendship intact. I would say that we were as close, if not closer than we were before. If you look at our relationship after high school, you will see much more avoidance occurring. Once college started we had a few issues that eventually ended in the termination of our friendship

I also, have friends that I don’t talk as often as I want, and when we talk it seems like we have been connected all along.

Jean has been a friend of mine since August 1996 when we met in high school. She was a grade younger than me, but had a January birthday, so we were only 7 months apart. We became friends quickly despite our different personality traits. I had been quite yet outgoing in high school and Jean was lively and animated. People wondered how we could be so opposite, yet great friends. Our friendship continued to grow over the years and we became best friends. Throughout the years of friendship we talked about her romantic relationships and my romantic relationships. We trusted each other with private experiences that we would not tell anyone else. Our communication was very open, honest and transparent. As Jean was entering college, at a different university than me, she struggled with her father falling ill and sadly passing away. This was an extremely hard time for Jean to finish her undergraduate degree, but Jean pressed on toward its completion and graduated college.

A strong friendship does not need to talk 24/7, but when we do it is like we were always there with each other. It was a frosty December evening in Flagstaff, Arizona, my best friend, Mercy and I were having a snowball fight in the clear white snow. We were giggling at each other for our gruesome aim. That day was our tenth year friendship anniversary, so we decided to take a road trip. Now a days, we do not always receive time to hang out, since we live three hours away from each other. Nevertheless Mercy lives in Yuma, Arizona and I live in Phoenix, Arizona.

My friend Aija and I have known each other for about two years and have gotten pretty close within the last year. Reading through all the stages of the Knapp model I would consider us to be at the intensifying stage. We took our friendship pretty slow, however I would say that we went through the intensifying stage rather quickly. It started by her inviting me to a art party she had in her home, then I started inviting her over to my house for girls night or to just chat for coffee. She then started staying at my house for a night or two while my husband was away for military reasons. At some points in time we see each other a lot and then other times we don’t see each other for weeks at a time due to being busy. We do favors for each other, we make each other feel appreciated.

John evolved into my best friend and, wrapping myself in his world, I lost my core group of friends. We had reached interpersonal commitment. All of my time belonged to John. We went to events and hung out according to his time frame, with little consideration for my time. All John needed to say was “no, I don’t want to do that,” and I respected his decision. Looking back, I realize how little John respected me. Our relationship grew in predictability as we learned each other’s schedules, emotions, and family habits. Dates always went the same way, involving dinner with his family followed by a rented movie. Our interactions never involved social bonding beyond our families. Instead, moments of novelty, like rock

One of my best friends, a female, is an altruistic person; she is a friendly and honest person. She is not a talkative or racist girl, even though she was born in a rich family. I hope that I can call this a BFF relationship, because we have close friendship for a long time since we were in the first level of high school. Like I said above, we share most of our free time and things together, I love her kids more than I love my nieces or nephews. Until the day I moved to another town ten years ago, then moved to the U.S later, we do not have enough chance to talk or enjoy happy times together like before. She was busy with her family’s business, and too busy to take care of her children, so she did not have time to drive far away to hangout with me like we always did before. About me, I did not want to meet any one to have connection with our family’s business after bankruptcy in that town, because of gossip and useless

On top of a difficult situation at home I was always introverted and never wanted people to talk to me; my social life was practically non existent. Despite my apprehension I eventually fell into a group of kids at school and grew close to a few of them however I never expected to find the insane idiot I call my best friend. Although we hung out with the same group of people, we never actually spoke until one day we were forced to sit together in a class. I’m not sure why I trusted her so quickly, or why she even listened to me ramble on about my problems; I guess it was obvious i needed someone to talk to. Our friendship slowly evolved into this

Our relationships with others are similar; they can be seen as existing on various levels- concentric circles radiation out from each of us. The people in the inner circle are our close friends. They are the people to whom we become attached by feelings of deep personal regard; they are the people we refer to as “pals, buddies, chums, sidekicks, sisters, and brothers,” and other such words. As we more outward to other circles, we find our casual friends. These are people who share

I think the theme of friendship is very relevant today because we often judge people before

I miss us. The way we talk. I miss us being able to hang out. This gradual shift has turned this friendship into something that’s hard to describe. I think I want too much of the old ways in which we were and can’t adjust well to the way things are now. I don’t want to be a burden to you or make this into a dark mess but I’m really at a loss of what to do from here on out. I question a lot of things that are apparent because I don’t want to really think things have just faded out, not us, you know. At the same though, I want to remain present to what you need. In the same respect of needing space, I need it for other reasons but not from you.

I always regard friendship as the most important and precious thing in my life. Someday, if I lose the friendship, I will have a cardiac arrest and die without meaning. I still remember the girl, the girl who named Wan Ching Koh, the nice girl who deserves me to use my life to treasure.