The Importance Of Friendships In My Life

Two people of different ages and genders can form solid friendship, which becomes their spiritual dependence and compensates their lacking of emotional care. Also, the end of friendship further demonstrates the importance of it. This paper will focus on Okyō and Kichizō’s friendship in “Separate Ways,” by Higuchi Ichiyo, and Park So-nyo and Lee Eun-gyu’s friendship in Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, to analyze the form and end of their friendships.

demands of life, have always needed each other. In the early beginnings of man, the forming of

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There are numerous valuable things in life, friendship might be a standout amongst the most essential. To live without the experience of fellowship, is presence without living. Human connection is a requirement for survival,yet developing friendships is essential to the successful wellbeing of anyone. The importance of a companion, and fellowship, relies upon one's own particular convictions. Diverse People have distinctive usage of their fellowships. The songs"We Are", "We Go!" and "We can!" by Hiroshi Kitadani, indicate how valuable friendships are and how they can enable individuals to defeat their challenges in their every day lives. Nonetheless, companionship are capable of allowing human beings to achieve their precious dreams regardless of whether they appear to be difficult to reach as a unique individual.

“It’s finally the holiday season!” Albert wrote in his journal. The time when everybody comes together. Families reunite, and broken friendships heal. The typical family in my neighborhood comes together on Thanksgiving. Differently, my family doesn't see anybody unless their is a Bar Mitzvah or a funeral. I barely know my own dad. He works on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.He has to be away for months at a time. Sometimes we get to Skype. On those short rare occasions when I see his tired face, he always lectures me about the value of education and how if I don't concentrate on school I'll end up like him. Doing a dirty job, far away from his home and family.

Defining friendship is a feeling or an emotion that can be expressed in different kind of ways to one another to feel wanted and important. Friendship can also be defined as a state of being friends, or a friendly feeling. Friends however, are defined as a friend as an ally, supporter or sympathizer. To look for that good friend it’s important to find traits such as being kind, loving, trustworthy, loyal, and honesty. In the book of Nicomachean Ethics, it explains says,” Friendship is a necessary aspect of everyone human’s life, as we are not self sufficient in and of ourselves”, (Irwin, 1999). To have friendship is to have comfort, in times of crisis and depression, a friend is the one that could lift our spirit up.

Friendship is the “bond between people who’ve made a similar commitment and who is possible therefore share a similar destiny” (Lickerman). Friendship is significant in everyone’s life. Humanity needs friendship in order to survive. It’s almost impossible for someone to never make a friendship. There is always someone out there that is similar to you.

Friends are very important to me in my life. Although you have family who loves you and always is there for you, it’s nice to have someone that you can always lean on. It is nice to have someone who is not biologically related to you, but someone that you can relate your life to them. Everyone has different reasons for why they need friends. My top three reasons I need friends are to add joy to my life, have someone to talk to, and have someone to be with. I need friends to add joy to my life because friends can make people happy and everyone deserves to be happy. It’s nice to know that you have someone and they can add joy to your life whenever you need it. Another trait or action I chose is having someone to talk to, like a listener. I need this in a friend because although you have family to talk too, it seems easier to talk to a friend that understands you and is the same age as you. Sometimes you don’t have a big problem, or it’s not a problem at all and you just want to talk about it. If it’s not a big deal and your parents don’t need to know about it, you can always talk to a friend. I love talking to friends because they listen, they understand, and they help. The last reason is because I need someone to be with. When I say that, I mean someone to be by you whenever you need them, someone to party with, someone to hang out with. I need a friend that can support me and be with me whenever. Whether I need them because it’s for something good or bad, I need to have

Friendship can have a significant impact on a person’s life in a positive and negative way. There are many definitions and types of friendship. In Todd May’s article “Friendship in an Age of Economics,” Aristotle believed that there are three types of friendship which are, “…those of pleasure, those of usefulness, and true friendship” (May). Friendship can be described as a bond between two people that have a connection which includes loyalty, acceptance, trust, and love. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, demonstrates a strong friendship between the main characters, George Milton and Lennie Small. Friendship can make people vulnerable in the way they trust, accept and love each other.

Everyone wants a friend that can pat their back when the finish a race or give them a shoulder to cry on when there’s a need. Friends are essential to happiness. Friendship is the goodness in life, the sunshine on a cloudy gets people out of bed.

There is a type bond that is made between a set people who want to go farther than being just acquaintances. A healthy friendship contains respect, people who respect each other by means of equal fashion. Friends should often care about the well-being of the other person. Many friendships also include acts, whether they are acts of kindness that work towards the best interest of the other without requiring materialistic items in return. A healthy friendship also contains honesty.

I lifted my backpack off of the sidewalk and kissed my mother goodbye. As I turned to walk away she quickly grabbed my arm and twisted me around. She pulled me in closer and softly said to me, “Remember our golden rule, treat others the way you would want to be treated and they will treat you the same.” I applied the ‘Golden Rule’ every year, from the beginning of kindergarten to the end of 8th grade. The golden rule taught me how to build friendships, see the best in people, openly accept them for how they come, and love them for who they are. Throughout the years the golden rule stopped being a rule and started to become a part of me. Little did I know, there was a downside to it. It was during my first year of high school when I realized that you could treat people the way you would like to be treated but that doesn’t mean they’re obligated to treat you the same.

“Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.” This quote by Judy Holliday hits the nail right on the head. When we forge friendships, we expect them to last. No matter how head over heels you are for a person romantically, there’s always a little voice in the back of your mind that says, “They might not be ‘the one’!” It is not so with a friend. Friendships are based on the premise that you will always be there for one another, and when that doesn’t happen the sting is worse than heartbreak. It is soulbreak.

When I was in sixth grade, I had no friends. Simple as that, nobody really liked me. I sat with two of my friends at lunch that I’d been friends with since forever. But most of my friends from elementary school just stopped talking to me. They became popular, while I definitely did NOT. I was super nerdy and more of a try-hard than I am today. I came across as kind of self-absorbed and full of myself. But, really, more than anything I was lonely. I pushed away what I wanted most. I just wanted friends.

I was born on September 15, 2001 in Martinez, CA. I have only one other sibling which is my older brother by three years. Both of my parents have been involved in my life since I was born and I can’t think of time they weren’t there for me.