Back in the beginning of my 7th grade at Sells Middle School, I was compelled to befriend my new neighbor, coincidentally my new classmate. As a former newcomer, I understood how helpful it is to have a companion as soon as possible during the harsh school transition time. I wanted to get to know her as well. We quickly developed a friendship through our meaningful conversations and I was able to introduce her to my other friends whom I met the year before; they connected well and, satisfied, I settled down in my new classes with my friends-- new and old, learning together. However, I found myself being caught in the middle of a growing, tension-filled relationship between the novice and my other friends as the year progressed. It took a …show more content…
My friends were unhappy, and if I didn’t take responsibility for avoiding it, I would have surely failed them as a friend. In the end, I did temporarily pause my relationship with the novice-- not because I favored my other friends more, but because I truly disliked her disrespect towards them and her unpleasant behavior was starting to affect me as well. We tried to communicate to her about it, but she did not respond back in a kind manner, so we left her and the situation alone for a while. Currently, we are peaceful, and I would’ve gladly visited her and connected with her again if I hadn’t moved the summer after the spectacle. As I look back at those times, I’m grateful to have learned to stand up for myself and others, and I now know that cutting off relationships do not always mean that you’ve failed at holding it. I’ve learned to recognize harmful relationships and how to handle it so that what happened to me last year would not be as severe in the future. Furthermore, I have learned to forgive and continue to love after everything that has happened, as the girl and I are now mutuals and my other friends have been kind to her as
Today I am talking about how my best friend and I met. My best friend’s name is Sydney Rott. The story of how we met is a cliché but I am going to explain it anyway. We didn't know each other up until my Sophomore year and her Junior year. I decided I wanted to go out for the tennis team, even though I have never really played before, I still decided to join. Sydney was the number one player for the Harrisburg Tennis Team. I thought that she was a brat when I first met her, but as time went on I started to like her.
I didn't see her at all for weeks until one day I was in the main town of our area, a few miles away from our own town. She was just finishing loading her shopping into her car when by chance I walked past her. We had our usual small talk about my family, college and the local football team I played for.
During my first semester, I was struggling with understanding a few concepts in my COMM 290 course and decided to ask help from girls that I had initially met in my learning community. While studying, we discovered common interests, and eventually developed close friendships. In fact, we planned on becoming roommates, as we noticed that we worked well together more so during the early stages of our friendship.
Incidents write and experiences direct the episodes of our lives and learning of the most significant form is the one we receive from them. A young person, raw and oblivious to the world’s functioning gains skill through education but becomes adept to decipher life’s conundrums, only through his perennial experiences.
I told her I didn’t have any and she offered to be my friend. In conclusion, I learned that there are nice people in this world even if other people are shunning you, they will stick up for you and care for you no matter what. All you must do is allow yourself to find the right people to be around that have positive energy. But on the other hand, it is ok to handle your problems and still have a great positive mind set. To be become a better person it’s better for me to admit to my problems and work them out. Second, it’s about building a relationship with yourself and other people around me to help build that positive vibe. Third, it helps me grow as a person and it grows my emotions and feeling on how to handle it like a mature person. Forth, it’s about how people show love to me and respect me as a person not just an empty shell. To be a mature person, I must learn how shunning can make me a better person by building a relationship, grow in the mind and love. The reason I must know these things is because it helps me to move on in life and, it’s better to have these things on taking the first steps on becoming a mature person. Even though it is difficult to be a strong person, I am willing to do my best and become a strong independent woman and not
Now, in all fairness, it's not uncommon that organizations gradually accumulate a disjointed or eclectic set of rules and standards over time despite their acknowledged inefficacies among those who toil there.
After the graduation ceremony, the school organized an event for students to attend instead of going to a party and drinking. It was named project graduation, we all met back at the school at 10 pm and took the buses to an arcade place. I went with a group of friends I was close with in high school. At first, it was fun playing games, and riding rides, refreshments, and food were provided too. When my best friend Cristina, Jimmy and I were outside on line for a ride, another friend of mine Casey asked: “Can I ride with you guys”. I said ok and right away my snobby friend Cristina said: “there is no room”. Clearly there was room for the four of us, I am the type of person that treats everyone, equally uncool or not. I did not like how Cristina treated her, so I walked away with my other friend. A persons’ character determines his or her traits for us to be good people. I am a compassionate, responsible, and caring person. This became an ethical dilemma because I felt I needed to make a choice, stay best friends with Cristina or ignore my other friend and hurt her feelings. I believe all people should treat other how they would want to be treated by doing right by God.In the end, Cristina and I stopped being friends because treating people kindly and fairly is very important to my
We were in 9th grade, sitting in 7th period math. The lights were off and we were working on our notebooks when our teacher Miss Jones made us talk to the person next to us. From the moment we said hello the birth of the friend ship of me and Hannah Schuck. We had almost every period together and I’m so thankful for that. Hannah started talking and became friends right away. We liked a lot of the same things and had a lot of things in common.
One thing that I have really came to realize in my middle school/high school years, is that people have a little thing in their mind saying that lying is sometimes the best option to protect people’s feelings. There have been times where some of my best friends mistreated me, or did something that they knew I would be upset about. People would come up to me and let me know what they did,
Freshman year of high school at a youth event my best friend Julia walked up and introduced herself to me. Our then boyfriends played on the same football team and were friends. We had known about each other through mutual friends and we were nervous to meet each other. Comparing myself to Julia makes me see how I appear to others, we have similar lives, yet also have some differences in them.
During my first class I made a lot of new friends. My first friend’s name was Emily. She and I connected because we both loveeee reading. Then the next girl I met was named Olivia. She’s not really my friend anymore but we became friends because our parents became friends from karate.
Six years ago a girl made a big transition to a new school. On the first day she was scared. She didn’t know a single person in that school. She soon met a girl who had also transferred that same year. This girls name is Rachel. Rachel and I had almost all of the same classes together. So over time we had gotten to know each other pretty well. Our lockers were also right next to each other. We were inseparable. Little did we know during this time that we had both found our forever best friend.
After one year of hell, loneliness consuming me, I met my best friend. We didn’t necessarily start out that way though. In fact, I recall her wanting to punch me in the face. Let me explain. At the start of 7th grade at my middle school you had the option to start earning your foreign language credits for your coming high school career. At the time, I was infatuated with Parisian culture. From baguettes to bon bons, if it was French and fancy, Karisma took interest in it. Moving on, about half the semester in, I was still without friends (read: close friends). I had the typical classroom acquaintances, but nobody I viewed as reliable for things other than history notes. One day I was early for French class and I walked up to this crispy chicken nugget toned girl I had seen in class quietly sitting with my acquaintances on the
In high school, I participated in a program called Health Academy since my freshman year. When you are in health academy you stay with the same 36 teenagers all four years of high school. By the time our junior year came around, most of us have been together for three years straight. We were bonded. We were a pretty strong team and we had each other’s backs. My friendship dilemma happened towards the end of our junior year. Of course, we were all pushing ourselves pretty hard in order to be ready for college. We’re feeling the pressure to perform at our best most of us were tired and started to burn out, especially in our English 11 class.
“I’m Kira. Sorry I came here a bit late, traffic.” She gave a little laugh and I accepted it. We began to sit down on the kitchen table and got to know each other as we kept talking, it seemed to be that she is also new, in my classes, and we could somehow relate with each other on our likes, dislikes, choices, and other little things. Kira is one of those people who is an introvert at first, but when you get to talk to her more, she seems to be more easygoing and very kind and friendly.