Definition Essay: What Does Friendship Really Mean?

Have you ever wondered what the true meaning of friendship is? I never knew how hard the word friendship was to define until someone asked me what does friendship mean to me and how would I describe the word friendship. By definition friendship is a mutual affection between two or more people, but I have learned the meaning of friendship is defined differently by different people. When I think of my friends and friendship I think of someone who I had an instant connection with, someone I could share my common interests with, and someone who understands me in ways most don’t. But then I ask myself, is this what friendship really means? Is there a deeper meaning behind the word friendship? After reading the three stories and doing random research

He explained how people felt about friendships back in ancient times and how now in the modern world we meet most of our friends via Facebook and Twitter. Back in ancient times friendships meant something totally different, now as Deresiewicz explains in his story boyfriends and girlfriends call each other their best friend and teenagers call their parents their best friends, so in the modern world friendship has taken on an entirely new meaning. Deresiewicz is the most relatable because he explains throughout the centuries how much the term “friendship” has changed all the way to the modern age of now. He breaks it down and goes through each century explaining in detail what it meant in that time and how completely different it is now. I can relate to his more because it explains the more modern day of friendship and how I define friendship

I met my childhood friend in kindergarten, I remember being really shy and I spilled juice on my dress I was wearing, and this little girl approaches me and starts helping me clean my dress off, she tells me that my dress is pretty and that she has one similar to it, from that point forth we became best friends and nothing has changed that over the years but we always remembered how we met. When someone asks me about my friends I start to almost instantly think of how I met each and every one of my friends and how something as little as a spillage on my dress at 5 years old or a divorce managed to bring me close to the two most important people in my life. Friendship in a lot of ways is awkward because you meet a complete stranger and have similar interests or differences and think wow this person is awesome, that’s how it all begins. In a way friendship is where relationships begin most of the time, that’s at least how it began for me. I started out being best friends with the little boy who lived below me, I was three years old and he was five years old and I can remember us playing together and being the best of friends over the years and when I was 19 I married him and we had two children