Personal Statement On The Ending Of A Friendship

Many years later they meet again on several occasions but the intensifying stage does not resume until they finally become friends and share details about their past failed relationships. During this period they start spending a considerable amount of time together and their expression of feelings toward the other becomes more intense. We see the beginnings of a true interpersonal relationship development.

You know when you have one of those friends you feel like you will have forever? Well, I have already found mine. This is the story. The first of seventh grade I stayed with the same small friend group and didn’t talk to people if it wasn’t required. Fast forward to eighth grade and I had made some band nerd friends because they had my sense of humor and the same love for band. Band was probably my favorite class and the class where I could be myself and not worry who was watching. I had made some friends with some fellow clarinet players and found out that they weren’t that bad once you got to know them. There was this one girl, her name was Nina Zeiler, she was the type of person that hanged out with the outcasts and was more of a rebel but was on the cheerleading team. I tried not to talk to her then which sounds ridiculous now that she is my best friend.

Before I came to Baker Middle School, I attended elementary school in Laytonsville. I had a group of friends that consisted of five people, Olivia Fink, Olivia Pallas, Mason LeBlanc, Kody Johnson, and Stefan Jacob. The Olivia’s both attend this school alongside me, but sadly the other three attends a different school. I became friends with those three because we all had common interests in multiple categories such as cartoons and humor. I still keep in touch with them, but I know we aren’t as close as we used to be. With the Olivia’s we all became best friends in the first week of Kindergarten and we still have been by each other’s side since. We became friends because we all sat next to each other on our little chairs, and talked about anything

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The first year of school seemed to go by fast. I liked all of my classes and I had met a lot of pretty great people. Although I did not really have a whole lot of people I considered my friends until towards the end of the year. I started sitting with my friend Taylor at lunch. We talked and walked together after our classes. We sat at a table with three other girls named Emilee, Tiffany, and Bri, They seemed to be pretty good people. I sat with them for the rest of the year and now Emilee is my best friend.

Over the course of the year, I have opened up to so many new people. I decided to open up and invite a bunch of girls over to my house one night to have a girls night and watch movies. These girls and I now have been best friends ever since that night. This experience taught me that opening up and stepping out of my comfort zone was all I needed to enjoy my senior year. Of course I had a few friends before all of this, but now I believe I have found my true, forever friendships. Now I don’t have to worry about feeling alone in an emotional situation, because I will always have a group of people to go to during my hard

When I first entered school and had to start making friends, I tried very hard but always seemed to had issues socializing. Somehow, I ended up being the target of bullies all the time as a kid, with few friends who always stuck around. As I moved around the first few times between towns in Upstate New York, this kept happening. It seemed I just didn’t know how to make good friends, or at least not many. But, this all ended when I moved out to California halfway through Middle School. I made a few very good friends after I came to Larchmont, and they helped me open myself up to more people. I made more friends than I ever had in my life, and began to spend time outside of school socializing— something I’d never done before. Through all of this change, my closest friends were still the same type of people I’d always sought out my entire life; it had always been more creative type people. Whether they focused their creative efforts towards games, art, writing or music, that was always the main thing that connected my closest friends to me. Also, despite my more extroverted approach now, I still do prefer a quiet setting with less people (or even no one) to one that is busy at the end of the

I made most of my former friends in middle school where no one knew who he or she was. Our common interest then was awkwardness and unpopularity. Then the social scene changed. Friends discovered their interests and made friends in those groups. We did not share those interests so the relationship faded into obscurity. My main interest was STEM. Not many people are into STEM. And not many girls. I like girls better as friends. Unfortunately, I am the only girl in the grade really into it. I made companions with some of the boys in STEM, but seeked female friendship more. I had some friends left over, our common interest being awkwardness and

Starting in sixth grade I began attending a college prep school for snobby rich kids and talented athletes on scholarships. Middle school was kind of a blur. I didn’t have a set group of friends, I just kind of wandered from group to group. I didn’t go out much, usually just to the high school sports games, which sucked because the high schoolers sit in front and the sixth graders have to sit at the very back. It was around eighth grade that I found a solid friend group that stuck around for a while: Matt Farroll, Grant Washburn, Jonathan “the Russian Rocket” Bokel, and Patrick Gallagher.

The journey to self-authorship theory was researched by Marcia Baxter Magolda and is based off of three central questions that individuals in transition consider. According to Evans, Forney, Guido, Patton, and Renn (2010) the three questions are: “How do I know?” “Who am I?” and “How do I want to construct relationships with others?” (pg. 184). Baxter Magolda utilized these questions to form her Path to Self-Authorship theory, which has four phases. Each of the four phases incorporates both internal and external considerations of defining oneself (Evans et al., pg. 184). Phase 1, following formulas, is the phase in which a “young adult” (Evans et al., pg. 184) defines themselves and bases their future plans based off formulas and labels that others prescribe. Young adults in this phase are concerned with

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.

It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock, and undeniable truth of my cousin's death. I don't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news.

Although people generate a separate profile for each individual they meet, sometimes the profiles are very different. In high school we befriend many persons of different races, personalities, as well as social groups, yet we tend to befriend very similar individuals. Very rarely do we realize that some people are actually more different than we know. Freshman year, I entered into a world all different than what I was used to, but yet I made two amazing friends. Jessica was different than the friends I had in middle school, but I was happy to make friends different than what I was used to. Amber on the other hand, was all too similar to the friends I had back in middle school. I was happy nonetheless to have some familiarity in a big new world called High school. Between them are many differences, but a few stand out from the others. College and work ethic, their personalities, and talents differ greatly.

Everyone has struggled with their identity and belonging during a chapter of their life. There comes a time when our opinions and beliefs begin to differ from those around us. During this time, some people may discover which relationships they belong in, and those which they may not. However relationships are important

At five years old, most children have no specific group they fit into. Everyone is their friend and their best friends change with the passing days. It was much like that for me, but I decided to become best friends with Martin (name changed to protect privacy) during the most coincidentally horrific time. Martin was a boy with wavy brown hair, light brown eyes, and the spirit of an adventurer. Nothing scared him, and as I 'd learn very quickly, there was a very good reason for that.