Narrative Speech About Friendship

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

In Kindergarten, you become friends with people who have the same kind of markers as you, or the kid that has your favorite power ranger on their shirt. You actually have things in common, you do not become friends with them just because you think they are “popular.” As the years go on this theory starts to diminish. Unlike Kindergarten you start to differentiate between the kids who are “popular” and the kids who want to be “popular.” Most of the time the kids who are popular actually do not have that much in common with each other. They put on these fake personas to make it look like they are all perfect and have so much in common. When in reality they are all strangers to each other. Over this past year, I have learned that I really do not have anything in common with half of my friends. I did not realize it because we were always suppose to be friends, thats just how it went. Growing up we were always considered the “in crowd,” and so we all just kind of stayed together

People change. Three years with the same 60 kids has taught me this. But people change all the time. Instead of saying people change, I should say people drift apart. Sometimes what previously held you and your circle of friends together disintegrates slowly. Conversation dies and interaction is avoided. As a person who experienced this firsthand, I'm unsure how I should feel about this. Back in 5th grade, I was really close to one of my fellow classmates. For the sake of, well, our dead friendship, let’s call her Anna. It was a circle of 5 in fifth grade. We experienced silly stapler wars together and ranted about our ever changing substitute teachers together. Anna and I remained close in 6th grade. Our circle of friends stayed intact although a few of us were in another class. We shared secrets, gossiped about certain people we disliked and fangirled over celebrities. Then, like in every friendship, a fight broke out, not just between Anna and I, but among our whole friendship circle. Suddenly, everyone has a problem with someone else. The five of us found new people to hang out with. Some of us stayed in pairs but Anna had joined a new circle of friends that did not include the former 5 person friendship group we were in. With only 60 people in your grade, conflicts are resolved easily as you most likely see that person you dislike many times a day. This held true for Anna, 3 other girls and myself. We may have split up, but we regrouped quickly.

Dinitia and I stayed in the pool all morning, splashing, practicing the backstroke and the butterfly. She flailed around in the water almost as much as I did. We stood on our hands and stuck our legs out of the water, did underwater twists, and played Marco Polo and chicken with the other kids. We climbed out to do cannonballs and watermelons off the side, making bug geyserlike splashes intended to drench as many people sitting poolside as possible. The blue water sparkled and churned white with foam (191).

Since I was a child, I loved making friends. Whenever I saw someone new, I would run up to them and immediately become best friends with them. As I grew up, I recall some occasions when I felt left out. I remember being so sad that they wouldn't include me. From that day on, I made a commitment to make everyone feel involved because that feeling of being left out was one of the worst feelings a young boy/girl could ever have.

I wish I had had a friend while growing up, but I did that myself by not wanting any friends. I could have saved myself a lot of suffering simply by trying to fit in at school. I had always told myself, “They don’t know any better. It’s okay.” I didn’t realize how mature my thinking was at the time. From being bullied, I learned how to strengthen myself and repress my feelings. I do not resent any of my classmates from elementary school since I have changed from my childish ways. My childhood taught me how mean children could be. I look forward to raising my own children and showing them the love I had never received in my

While growing up in a military family, I struggled to make friends as well as how to be around other people. So for most of my middle school I loned out of what other students were doing. So I got bullied and got into fights which brought me to my lowest. This is not how anyone should

To begin with, I had good and bad friends, which was the reason why I was able to be successful as a 6th grader. Throughout the years of

When I was a child, being popular was the coolest thing ever. Friends that you could trust by a snap of your finger. All friends are different, there is that one friend that can no longer be trusted because that friend did something that affected you. The other friend that can be trusted and can be by your side until the end with your secrets and stories. Every person can be different depends if they are conformity or nonconformity.

There are good people in the world and hopefully you can choose the right one. If you choose the right group they may be able to pressure you into the right direction. When it comes to school, extracurriculars, etc. the right crowd will influence you to make the right choices. In school, some students can feel embarrassed to think of themselves as the only “good” ones. When there aren't others doing good things a student may feel like an outlier and to fit in do things they may not want to normally do. So blending in with the crowd in this instance can be for the worse. Also, true friends don’t let other friends make bad choices. In many friend groups there will always be at least one person who is the watchful eye of the group. This person will always be there to pressure the others in the group into making the right decisions. The necessity of this person is quite great in order to keep others in line and everyone on the right

Ever since I was in middle school, making friends was easy. I was told by many of my peers that I was pleasant and easy to talk to, and that I was always so happy. Looking back through all my years of middle and high school, the degree of inaccuracy that statement

Tonka Truck rear-ends another Tonka Truck and within two minutes of sandbox hit and runs a new friend is made. The same cannot be said of High school. Those friends you made in elementary are still your friends when you first enter into high school. But slowly they drift off into the abyss, slipping into with different cliques and before you know it, you are put on the backburner. You feel forced, worried and are fairly sure that rear-ending a grads car will not work. This is yet another perfect example of change, that anyone that’s ever been to high school has probably faced. Accepting this sort adjustment will teach you new skills, and a lot about yourself. Making new friends can be hard or easy, depending on how you tackle the problem. Change is simply a tool, it is you who decides what to make with it.

Do you have friends? Most likely, you answered yes, but I’m asking do you have “true friends”? I use quotes because my understanding of the general populous concludes me to believe people don’t have real honest, genuine, friends. These superficial friendships I speak of lead to a disastrous chaos, betrayal, and most importantly: a broken heart. Friends are those who look out for each other, those who will abort any personal objective for you at the drop of a hat. These aspects show a real friend, these aspects describe Rachel Stephenson.

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

When you were still in the kindergarten, friends were the people who romped about with you, played mischievous tricks upon everyone. When you were getting bigger, perhaps at primary school, friends were the people who helped you in your homework, who sung with you at the school choir. Had you forgotten them? Had you betrayed them? Are you a good friend to your friends? A true friend would always tell you the truth, be you best partner when you need him, most of all, support you.