Two Different Types Of Friendships Essay

There are many different types of friendships. There are some that are short lived and some that are long lasting. For me, I’ve had several people that have come and gone throughout my life. However, there is one friendship that has lasted for 14 years. The person who has made this happen is Jennifer. She is my partner in crime and friend for life. Our friendship officially began in the third grade. However, before we became the best of friends, she told me that in second grade, she used to make fun of me. At this age, I was totally oblivious. I didn’t know who they were or why they would do that. Supposedly, they were making fun of me because I was Asian. I didn’t know about this until high school where she randomly confessed to me about it. But that was in the past, so I …show more content…
I didn’t want to lose her over some stupid seating arrangement in lunch. During our 14 years of being friends, this was the biggest fight we’ve ever had. We’ve never fought after that and now we joke around about the nonsensical dramas we’ve had.
Looking back at it now, I think would’ve handled it differently. I’m at the age where I know that if I leave an argument unresolved, it can only get worse and may cost me my friendship. Obviously, I didn’t know that back then, but if I had the knowledge I have now, this argument would’ve been nonexistent.
When we started high school, we didn’t have many classes together. We probably had one. Aside from the end of the day, that was the only time we actually got to talk. So our solution to this was to start a journal that only Jennifer and I could read and write in it. In this journal, we would alternate writing on each page about anything we wanted. Normally, we wrote about what we were doing, or random things we felt like talking about. Since we shared my locker, we would leave the journal in there. This was our way of communicating and staying in touch with each