The Importance Of Friendships In My Life

Unfortunately, part of my high school learning experience has been learning from my mistakes. During my sophomore year, I was put on a five day suspension from school because I failed a random drug test for marijuana. When this happened, it seemed as if my life stopped and ended. My parents were shocked, my teachers were shocked, and even I would have been shocked a few weeks before this happened. Going into tenth grade, my reputation at my high school was that of a quiet student with great integrity and that is how I had been perceived my whole life. As being looked upon as an introverted person I was always encouraged to interact with new people and make new friends. I did just that but then found myself associating with the wrong type of

Close friends often have a major impact on the choices that people make. A close

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

Being in a small neighborhood is rather helpful for making friends, as you are almost forced to talk with those around you until school starts. Living in New Palestine was not all that great, however. The people were not the nicest, and it seemed that everyone was too focused on playing the game of faces, always trying to seem cool and outdo each other. From the start, I never really fit in. I did not care about playing the game with everyone else, I would rather be completely frank with everyone. I have always felt that honesty is the best policy, even when it comes to trying to be cool in front of everyone. I had trouble making friends because of this, but those friends that I had made at that time have stuck with me to this day. I guess that dealing with all the falsehood during that time has made me slightly cynical. One of the best things that has happened in my life was the move from Indiana to Sunnyvale, Texas. Sunnyvale is a nice, somewhat small town where everyone knows everyone. The community in Sunnyvale is much more close-knit than New Palestine was, for better or worse. Coming into the school in the eighth grade was the perfect time for me. Nobody knew me, I knew

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

As a child I was shy, and still am, but I always tried to make friends. But that did not always go well because of the culture boundary’s that were between me and most of the other students. Many students of the same race would stick together, leaving me usually alone because of the very few Caucasian students in the schools. Spending most of my time working alone unless the teacher assigned groups. That did not change much when entering middle school. Middle school just became a bigger version of the years pasted. Spending my time feeling like I was the outsider because most people already knew each other. The first year of high school was no different from the past years, I began to gain a few friends who had classes with me. I tried to venture out and stared becoming friends with more people with the help or sports and my advanced classes. When you are a student in Advanced Placement classes you began to have classes with a smaller group of people. This was when I finally did not feel any different from the other students in my

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

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.

Throughout my years as an elementary school kid I was always trying to make new friends and bond a lot with old ones. At the time it was rough for the fact that I was an only child and it was hard to socialize with kids my age because the only people I would talk to is my parents since

I was actually pretty social when I was growing up, partly because my family kept moving around until I got into high school to ensure that I got the best possible education and the highest possible grades to help avoid getting drafted into the War but instead be assigned to design and make weapons. Every school year until Sophomore year of high school was a crisis to make friends before I got branded as a loner and then nobody, and I mean nobody, would ever dream of being friends with me. To make sure that never happened except in my worst nightmares, I quickly learned how to make people like me. I learned the art of firsts; first day outfits, first words, first impressions. How to interest somebody somebody so that they want to be friends with “that new kid”.

As I went through junior high, I realized I would never be close with my best friends from elementary again. When I got to high school, I was thrown into an even bigger class with people I have never seen before, and I honestly was not sure if I would

Well I was one of those kids, I thought why did they pick me to go to school? As my parents were about to leave they said “Ian now make friends and don’t be shy”. I thought why should your the only friends I want, no one else. I cried as they left and a kid came up to me and asked me why I was crying? I wanted to tell him go away I don’t know you don’t talk to me. I remembered what my parents said to me, so I decided to talk the kid and ended up being friends with him. I realized how easy and fun it was to make friends, so I made friends with the whole class and all the other kids in the school. School went on and changed grades I was interacting with everyone I met. If there was a new kid I was his friend. It went on through High School to my senior year. My parents taught me to make friends and interact with everyone. This helps me as an adult, because I am good with people.

When I started middle school, I was afraid of making friends. I had terrible experiences with friendships in elementary schools which lead me to make careful decisions in middle school. I was always bullied by children who came from broken homes

A barkada is the Filipino translation of peers or group of friends. Peers are one of the most influential people during adolescence period. Barkadas are formed in school when different groups are joined together, such as when a group of athletes in the same sport that hang out together after games as well as students who have diverse interests may possibly form a barkada. As long as these friendships have consistency and positive interactions. In this paper, it will tackle the important of teenagers to be part of a barkada. According to an article entitled, ‘The Need to Belong’ by Baumeister and Leary, people join barkadas because they have a drive to form and maintain positive as well as significant interpersonal relationships. However, interactions with friends are not only due to the fundamental drive to belong, but also a way to reinforce the personal development and experiences that are salient throughout one’s lifespan.

When I was younger, I used to think that all people were good and every friendship that lasted longer than three months was forever. Now, I know that people will not always be what they seem, I might get hurt from friendships, and I have to learn to let go sometimes. I believe in standing up for yourself and your thoughts, even when it’s the harder thing to do. I stand for not letting a toxic relationship define you. This is how I believe in self worth.