Personal Narrative: Long Lasting Relationships

The average American kid usually grows up in a neighborhood where they create close friends with other kids around the block. For the most part, I have seen trends where kids stick together through the school years and later no longer know each other. Why? We have created these bonds with people that helped you grow up and then later forget them? Well I believe it starts when you graduate high school. Some of your friends attend college, some go straight to work, and some you never hear from again. Many possible strong long lasting relationships are lost and never explored. Sprouting up in Shafter, CA, a small scaled town on the outskirts of Bakersfield, where population did not exceed 20,000 and most kids in the equivalent age group stuck together like a second family. Maybe it was the size of the town that allowed friends to be tight like family and always looking out for each other. During the process of maturing and advancing to the proximate grade level, our kinships grew bigger and bigger never knowing what life after graduating high school would hold in stores for us. Most boys in Shafter generally call their best friend someone who lives nearby. As for me, my best friend was B.J. We met at the age of 8 when he moved in 6 houses away. We would spend a ton of time doing “boys stuff” as my mother would call it, which consisted …show more content…
From time to time I find myself reminiscing the adventurous childhood I had alongside my buddy and always wonder how different life would have been if we would have kept in touch. I realize that life takes over after school is done, in terms of friendships. Life consumes all your time as is the same for your longtime friends, leaving little or any room to keep contact and eventually losing complete connection. I also realize that there is plenty of time to recover our relationship and restore the brother-like bond we both