What Does Friendship Mean To You Essay

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In life, I have accepted and come to terms with who my friends are (Dutt). Whether, presumed enjoyable or disgraceful, not everyone wishes to be my companion. Coming to terms with the fakes in comparison to the legitimate has proven to be extremely trying. Yet, it’s necessary to having a successful friendship. A majority of friendships aren’t successful, causing life lessons to be taught by my poorly chosen friendships. Though, I have been presented with several hard knocks in the realm of friendship, such is that of human nature. All of the trials and challenges that friendship has presented me, has given me the experience to know that, I truly value friendship. Friendship’s meaningful to me, because having been friendless, and stripped of dignity after falling into …show more content…
In the beginning, most of my experiences were negative. To illustrate, 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. In my younger days, 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, giving me no choice other than to settle. Of course, it’s difficult having to settle on people I don’t fancy, or hardly know, having to settle is absolutely, positively, awful! On the other hand, something that is worse than having to settle is, having to play with someone who doesn’t enjoy my company. Although, not having any friends did teach me useful information, such as, not having friends is absolutely appalling, under no circumstances take friends for granted, because friendship is a special thing to have. I learned that I needed to become a likeable person in order to be liked. With this new found information time went on and I found a friend, at least what I thought a friend is. My first example of someone I thought to be my friend: someone who

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