My Best Friend Jen I have a best friend and her name is Jennifer, Jen for short. She has influenced me in so many ways throughout the years. We have been friends since we were three years old. We met in preschool and have been inseparable ever since. She is the peanut butter to my jelly and the ketchup to my fries. She has been there for me through every hurdle I faced in life. We have experienced so many life experiences together that we could have been sisters. Jen knows everything about me. She has been to every major and minor event in my life including my wedding and the birth of my two children. She comes to every family function because I feel like she should always be a part of my family. She always has an ear to lend or an opinion …show more content…
A few examples of this would be when she would help me make decisions when it came to relationships, the kids or even whether to go back to school. One example would be going back to college. I really didn’t think I could do it after being out of school so long but she encouraged me and told me how much she believed in me and now here I am back in school. Another would be her good advice on relationships. Recently I had a fight with my husband and she was right there helping me work through my issue and offering up her opinions on how to find a solution. Another example would be helping me when it comes to mommy advise. She has two kids and knows all the ins and outs of mommy hood. I have asked many times for advice on how to handle situations with my daughters and she is always right there with some good advice. Lastly, and most recently, she has helped me with advice on our new puppy. I have never owned a dog before and she has really helped me with training, behavior and feeding advice when it comes to my dog. Jen always was, and always will be, my friend. She is a part of my family and I love her so very much. She is a great influence on me and I value her opinion and kindness towards me. I don’t know what I would do without her as my friend. I will cherish all the great memories we have had throughout our lives and the many more we shall make in the
"Someday, I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my
I once had a friend named, Kailee. She was actually my best friend all through junior high, and partially through high school. She was someone I could trust, and someone I could always have a good time with. She currently lives in my hometown, Sioux Falls, and shares the same interests as I do: traveling, fashion, makeup. She was like a sister to me, until our relationship became more costly than
Some might not consider this to have much importance but the rarity of these qualities in a person’s character makes her praiseworthy. She is the person that I constantly turn to when I have something to get off my chest, whether it is a rant about a mean teacher, or a lengthy description of how my parents were being unreasonable. She consistently shows patience in her ability to sit there and listen to me regardless of the amount of time that I spend talking and repeating myself. Patience is a virtue and she possesses it with grace. Also the kindness that she shows me and others around her, is incomparable to anyone I know. When we were visiting friends in another state, I got sick and started throwing up. Instead of leaving me to deal with it by myself, she stayed with me the whole time, brought me some pills and water, and then laid by me in bed for a couple hours until I felt better. She talked me through the entire ordeal and showed me her incredible kindness. Jennifer deserves praise and recognition for her character because not many other people, except my mother, would have done that. Her loyalty to me as a friend is unbreakable and I know that I can always depend on her. She will keep all of my secrets and look out for my best
She helped me understand some of the things I had problems on, but not all of them. The next test I made a slightly better grade, but not what I needed it to be. I kept going to toutoring but the math just kept getting arduous. My grades kept getting worse and worse. The rest of the school year I knew just enough to pass. I was finally out of eighth grade.
During my freshman year of college, I had met one of my best friends, who go by name Jill. (She lives in New Jersey and while I live in Pennsylvania) I found it to be strange that sometimes, it feels like we have grown up with one another but in reality we have only one another for four years and I couldn’t be more thankful. I can remember when we met at school as if it was yesterday.
She was the one who showed me all of the nice things you could see if you looked at things a certain way, she taught me how to laugh and how to be a kind and understanding person and when I was younger I thought she was the best that she could do no wrong but everyone does make mistakes and she also showed me that it was okay to make them and by making mistakes you learn what not to do next time.
I met her in the autumn right after she had taken a terrible fall going to her mailbox and I was hired by her family as an in home aide. Her name was Jane* and she became a fast friend and provided me with never to be forgotten lessons that cant be taught within the walls of a school. Jane took the time to prove to me that I was worth loving and showed me unconditional love that at the time I couldn’t find. In the end all I have left are a few cherished memories, a pearl necklace, and some of the best lessons in life.
I don’t know where I would be without my best friend. The person who keeps me sane when my family is driving me crazy, or the person who will stay up with me all night to support me when I have a last minute paper due in a class; I don’t know where I would be without that support. I found this support in my best friend, my sister from another father, Regina. Regina is an eccentric, overbearing, lover of all things natural type of girl. She lives life to the fullest and never backs down from a challenge. She is funny, full of whit and sharper than a tack fresh out of the box. Although it hasn’t always been a smooth road for us we still remain friends to this day.
The sun gleamed vibrantly on August 5, 2008, but I did not sense the warmth as my thoughts were elsewhere. I was only six years old at the time and preparing to begin first grade in less than one month. As I crossed the threshold into the home of my best friend, I had a sensation everything would change. At such a young age, I was having to tell my best friend goodbye. Blake Basgall had leukemia and would not be around when I returned from vacation, according to my mom. That day, I had spent hours coloring a picture in his favorite color, blue, so I could give it to him prior to heading to my grandma’s for the week. Blake was my first real friend. He had a thoughtful and daring heart through all of his surgeries and medication treatments. Blake Lee Basgall would become an inspiration
Since birth the one person that was always by my side except for my family was my Grandma. Once my parents needed to go back to work she was there everyday to watch over me. She took me with her every where she went and was proud to show me off and that she had such a wonderful grandson. My Grandma was around for all of my “firsts” that happened as an infant. I think that most of them can be accountable to her. I was never hungry since she always kept me full and when it came time to walk and talk she was there. A lot of our free time was spent chasing my old dog around the yard and petting the horses or going to the park. She was there every step of my infant years and through my younger years.
My aunt had been an important person in my life since I was born. She helped me a lot through rough times and always was there if I needed anything. I could always remember the big family parties we had and she would give me money for a present. She was always nice to me and was a big part in my success at anything I was doing. I even used to call her 2nd mom sometimes.
Growing up in school you have your friends in 1st, then in Jr. High, and then when you get to high school you might not even know or see your friends from 1st grade anymore. For the few people who’s had a friend from 1st grade till college I think that someone they need to hold on to because if they stuck with you through all them year I know they’re there for the right reason and there not just there for a season. As Elizabeth Dunphy says, “It’s the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.”
Friendship: the most important part of our high school years that we cherish the most. Every good friend that has come into our lives, like footsteps that we encounter along a walk on a beach, leaves us with a different perspective of who we really are. The activities that we are involved in throughout high school introduce us to life changing friends. My freshman year, during track, I met one of those special friends. We ran the same distance races; together we shared that special bond as teammates. She's always been an extraordinary athlete, who runs with her heart, who I have always looked up to. At the district championships we were warming down together. I told her how she inspired me and that I felt that she was my hero. The next thing I knew I found myself singing. She made me stop before I could finish, otherwise she would have started to cry.
Throughout most of my life I have gained friendships and relationships with others that have turned into long term, but others which only lasted a short while. The friendship that has greatly impacted my life significantly over the last eight years is someone who means so much to me. This meaningful friendship all started back when I was in middle school, which has grown stronger over the years. I met Brooke in middle school because we had some of the same classes and were in homeroom together. Our friendship developed quickly and lasted throughout our high school years. We became really close our Junior and Senior year of high school. But, maintaining our friendship hasn’t always been so easy. Today, we text and call each other on our free time, but I know I can count and rely on her when I need someone to talk too. I call her my second sister and vice versa. And when we go home on breaks we see one another as much as we can. The best part of our relationship is that if one is in need of advice or in need of a shoulder to cry on, we are always there for one another. Keeping in contact is very important in our relationship and communication has played a key role in our relationship.
In studying friendship through the lense of philosophy and philosophers, specifically Aristotle and Grunebaum, there’s been a lot of discussion about the ‘how’s and ‘what’s and ‘why’s of friendship-- what is a perfect friendship, and what is it based on? Why are friendships that focus on pleasantness or usefulness imperfect? Why do we feel obligations to our friends that we don’t feel to other people? We’ve had these questions answered-- a perfect friendship is, according to Aristotle, one based on the ‘virtuous’ qualities of both people-- ‘virtuous’, in this context, meaning the balance, the middle ground between excess and deficit. Pleasant friendships are ones that are only fun, no content, and useful friendships are ones where the parties just use each other for their possessions. Grunebaum told us that people believe they are more obligated to be good to their friends, rather than strangers, because there is more risk involved in treating those close to you unfairly. However, a question still lingers: why, exactly, do we befriend who we do? No matter if the friendship is perfect, useful, or pleasant, there must be more behind it, right? What makes us decide that a person will be good to have in our lives? It comes down