Sitting in my wooden desk in Mrs. Leeper’s fourth grade class, I realized I needed a genuine friend, someone who I could always trust to be there for me. We were about one month into school, and everyone began to find their group of friends to play with for the year. Our class motto, “A friend loves at all times,” was plastered on a poster on the wall, and distracted my brain from learning. I recollected my thoughts and replayed the situations from lunch and recess. I had quickly followed behind my group of friends and tried to participate in the conversations as much as I could. However, I was mostly silent and nibbled at my lunch for majority of lunch time. At recess, I jogged along behind my friends and played tag with them to try to fit …show more content…
After school, my friend Rachel invited me to her house to come swimming on Saturday. I reluctantly agreed, deciding it might be a good opportunity to get to know her better. The school week flew by and Saturday rapidly approached. Playing games like Marco Polo and Sharks and Minnows, I enjoyed spending time with Rachel and getting to know her better, and came to the conclusion that maybe Rachel and her group of friends were not as bad as I thought they were. However, on Monday at lunch and recess I realized that I was wrong. I looked around the small cafeteria for a minute and processed my situation. I realized that I did not want to participate and befriend these girls who left me out. Instead, I searched for someone to play with at recess. I found a different friend , but I knew that she would not be a lifelong friend. We had many different interests, but we had enough commonalities that we became friends for the year. I began to see qualities of a good friend; however, I was still searching for a true friend that would always have my …show more content…
As soon as they arrived, I realized my friends at school did not matter because I had already discovered the true friends I was searching for. Austin and Alexis Douglas brought out the characteristics in myself that I never allowed to come out to my other friends. When the Douglas family came, they stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine. My mom found water park passes for sale, and we were allowed to go play with Austin and Alexis in the humid indoor waterpark on the cold November day. We went up the stairs and down the slides until we were so exhausted we could not do it one more time. This allowed Austin and I to grow trust in one another and share memories that neither one of us would ever forget. This trip that the Douglas family took planted the relationship that Austin and I continued to
Friendship can be debated as both a blessing and a curse; as a necessary part of life to be happy or an unnecessary use of time. Friends can be a source of joy and support, they can be a constant stress and something that brings us down, or anywhere in between. In Book 9 of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses to great lengths what friendship is and how we should go about these relationships. In the short story “Melvin in the Sixth Grade” by Dana Johnson, we see the main character Avery’s struggle to find herself and also find friendship, as well as Melvin’s rejection of the notion that one must have friends.
...in our whole life. All of us can find some buddies for their life, and I want to say, don't let them down, don't waste their friendship. When I was studying in middle school, I don’t know the importance of friendship. All my classmates don’t know me a lot, and I don’t, either. I never thought what they thought and never care about their feelings. And the worst thing is that I don’t want to know, all of things I cared about was studying. It lets me seem unfriendly, and now I realized and want to fix it, of course, thanks to the movie, I’ve been trying to make more friends and keep closer to them.
The most supportive of friends are manifest during life’s toughest of obstacles. They are the ones that help us power through the storm. Karen Karbo claims, “Most of us would prefer to think that we love our friends because of who they are, not because of the ways in which they support who we are. It sounds vaguely narcissistic, and yet the studies bear it out.”(156) while Yvette and I stated off as simple associates, she was soon to be reviled as my most supportive friend. She was just another co-worker. However, after our bosses went through a divorce, our most dependable co-worker moved, and another reunited with her drug habit, Yvette was the only one I could depend on. Together we became an unbreakable team. We could run the front office without any flaws. Since our friendship was growing we became even more supportive of each other, if one was slacking the other would step up and make sure the task was completed. We would switch off on answering the phones and taking on a challenging customer. Occasionally we would go out for a drink to destress from work. We had just started taking our girls out on play dates, and hanging out on weekends. One night my mom called me to let me know she had made other plans for the following night and I needed to figure out another arrangement for my daughter. Most nights I depend on my mom to watch my daughter so I can go to class, and when she is unable my sister will step in. In
I still remember my second grade classroom. Not perfectly, but just enough that I can tell you about it. There was something that happened that was horrible, but lucky we figured it out before the real thing hit. You're about to find out what happened.
From the bedtime stories parents read to their children when they are going to bed, to the books students ready in high school, or the books adults ready have one most common element friendship. The history in the American literature three were many books, essays and songs about great friendships some are still famous and some are lost, in the era where people become friends by following each other on Instagram or sending request on Facebook. Mostly all persons on earth have a best friend and people say that it is hard to fine because a best friend should be some on whom you can always count on and that a person always count on you too. Sometimes having right person as your friends can help you but at the same time if you are in companionship of a bad person it can hurt you too. Who is the bad person and who is the good person is totally up to the person’s personal choice?
From Thursday, July 23 to Saturday, July 25, my time was mostly spent socializing, getting on social media, or sleeping. Though I had classes throughout the day, I made time to relax by watching Netflix or getting away from work and regenerating my brain. On Friday, I didn’t have classes until 1 o’clock, but I woke up around 10 a.m. to catch up on work. Throughout this period, I made time between classes to either catch up on work or relax. I also found myself spending less time on my studies and extra time doing other things.
Naturally, human beings are social beings and cannot live without friends. Friendship is an essential part of the structure of human existence. Today’s people are seeking and participating in relationships because they believe that it is good to have friends so as to experience pleasure, to be honored, to be healthy, and to prosper in life. Even in the inferior kind of friendships, people cooperate for the common advantage or pleasure. Irrespective of qualifications, career, personal perspectives, cultural differences, and interests, all people seek for love and acknowledgement from others (Curzer, 2012). This means that at a particular time, every individual will seek for a friendship, whether based on utility, pleasure, or even virtuous
The Lunch Table It was my first day in middle school. School had already started a week ago, and I moved from a different place. I was nervous for my first day at the new school, but I was thrilled and eager to make new friends. I was not that social nevertheless, I was polite, respectful and mannerly. I was also afraid that people would not like me because I had an awful accent.
It was transition time in the Indoor Classroom. Sami, Lorelei, and Amaris got dismissed from shared-book reading to go get ready for Snack Time. When Sami was walking to the sink he had calm eyebrows, and his mouth was slightly opened. Sami with his eyes wide open kept looking back to the Block Area as teacher Hannah was addressing the other children. As Sami arrived at the sink area, he turned on the water and was looking around the classroom. I reminder Sami that I was turning on the clock and that he was going to have one minute to finish washing his hands. I was washing my hands next to Sami and reminded him about the steps of washing hands and how much time he had left on the timer. After, Sami finished washing his hands I stopped the
Ever since I was a little kid in elementary school I have always had a passion for creating strong friendships with people and always making sure I included everyone in whatever I did. To this day I still have that passion and motivation to build and create strong friendships while always keeping in mind to include everyone. There have been many events in my life that has sparked an interest for this passion and how it has developed since I was little. One particular event that really made me realize that I needed to trust myself with others for this passion was when I was in fourth grade and my two best friends started hanging out without me and making plans behind my back and always making them secretly when I wouldn’t know about them. At that point I really came to realize that these were not the type of
Sadly things changed after this and college started. My former friends became more distant and I would no longer hear from most of them. This was probably one of most shitty things to have happened after high school mainly because I felt like I was going to be alone again and have no friends. I had a lot of friends in high school but once I lefts most just dussaoeared. This showed me who were really my friends and taught me a life lesson. However I still feel sometimes that I have no friends even though I actually
While our parents help and support us while growing, our friends will grow with us. These valuable attachments are cherished and needed, and their emotional embrace will always comfort us. With these friends we enter the world of education, our basis to survive in the outside world.
I took a long, hard look at the people around me and figured out what their good attributes were and why they were significant in my life. When I figured out who they were as people and what they could give as a friend, versus what I needed as a friend, I made my decision. It wasn’t a decision that was said out loud or one that was publicized. I just directed my energy towards the people who needed my friendship in return for the friendship they had shown me. When I realized who was a true friend and who was not, it hurt. There was a lot of pain, knowing somebody didn’t care as much about me and my well=being as I had wanted them to. It wasn’t until later, that I realized they could still be in my life, just not as much involved it as they once
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.”
Life teaches us a lot of things. But none is a better teacher than friendship (Importance of Friendship). There is one person who knows who I really am and that is my best friend, Danny. Friendship is a special love. Finding a true friend is always hard. So when one is found, it is important to hang on tight. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Growing up, I was the girl that was confident, strong, and had all the answers. No one had fully ever understood me or my actions, I was constantly on the move, keeping myself busy with any task or activity I could get my hands on, and I never told anyone the entire truth to why that was. My appearance to always seeming assured, formidable and dependable could be imputed to one prevailing time period, but was separated into hundreds of different memories of my past, each with their cause and effect. However, it started with one substantial hit, afflicting me in my teenage years.