Why I Value Friendship Essay

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“As a person, I’m pretty much the same except I have come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don 't get particularly friendly with new people at the first go” (Dutt). In life I accepted and came to terms with who my legitimate friends are, and wrapped up in that I obtained knowledge from my mistakes, mistakes that I called friends, I have built my walls up and I have put a passage in my walls, only for a specific and sparse few to come through. I have had some hard knocks; on the other hand that is what makes me human. Friendship is of substance to me, on the grounds that I have been friendless; I know how it feels to have people tear me down. Stripping my dignity from me limb from limb, slowly causing me to deflate like a balloon, to the point I …show more content…
I value friendship as a result of my past experiences and not having had any friends, friends teaching me how to trust people, they teach me how to laugh when quite frankly laughing seems nearly impossible, and they mentor me on how to stay light hearted, friends take the stress life brings and throws it away.

I have learned oodles from my past experiences involving friends. In the beginning most of my experiences were negative. I didn’t have any friends to share secrets with or to invite to my birthday party. I always wanted a friend; I wondered how it would feel to have a friend. When I was younger, I spent a great deal of time crying, as a result of not having anyone to invite to my birthday parties, or to invite anywhere, therefore it gave me no choice other than to settle. I hated having to settle. I was required to settle for people I didn’t fancy or hardly knew, and let me say, it absolutely, positively, awful has to play with someone who didn’t even enjoy my company. I learned quite a few tools from not having any friends: not having friends is absolutely appalling, you can’t take friends for granted,

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