At the age of 16, I would have never expected something as simple as young love to ruin friendships. When it happened to me, I was in shock. I never thought she’d come into my life just to control me and manipulate me into ruining the relationships I had with other people. We were suppose to be in love, right? People who love you shouldn’t ever do that to you, but I was blindsided. I was so in love that I couldn’t even see what she was doing to me. It started as soon as I met her, the crazy girl who would tear me apart. I knew I wanted her to be mine, it was that simple. When I finally got her, it didn’t feel real. I thought she’d be my “forever.” I dropped everything and everyone for her, that’s just how much I cared about her. Anything she wanted, I’d do my best to give to her. I thought I had the best, but…
The Pole that Split a Friendship Jacob might have been a very superstitious person who had weird habits, but it didn’t change the fact that he was my best friend. We did everything together from the minute we met, most people found his superstitious ways weird, but I had grown to like them. As the ambulance carried him away I was in tears knowing that our friendship was over, and the only thing I could blame was that pole. May came in full heat with soaking temperatures, and the only thing on…
Friendship is a wonderful thing. I grew up as a quiet, obedient child who always avoided trouble when I could. I did not have too many friends because I did not seek out people in the first place. The only thing I needed was my small circle and we could conquer the world together. Friendship is something that everyone needs, no matter who they are. We trust our friends with our deepest secrets and we rely on them during our toughest times. We love our friends. Perhaps too much, and sometimes we…
The story begins like so many others. A boy meets a girl. Friendship sprouts. Time goes by. They become best friends, the kind of friendship that seems hard to come by now. I still sometimes wonder how she came to know me so well. It was so natural. Everything just seemed to fall into place with her. First and foremost, she was my best friend. We told each other everything. She opened up about her past. I almost couldn 't believe what she told me. No one had ever been that open with me. We…
Friendship, particularly a trusting and dear friendship is essential for positive, social and psychological health of the individuals that are involved in the relationship. In our world today, we need trusted friends to listening to us, give us emotional support and empathy. If we cannot find this in a friend or spouse we will seek it out in a professional setting such as a counselor, or pastor. We seek to have this type of interpersonal relationships; they are what help us grow in caring,…
The Spartans were the greatest fighting force in ancient history. Spartans trained together from a young age for war with their countrymen. The Spartan warriors were elite. They were the most feared warriors. Unlike the Zack Snyder film 300 where each warrior is seeking glory for their own desires, the real Spartans were brothers forged in battle and in trials of war. I did not have the pleasure to know John Datzman from a young age, but I know that John was a Spartan at heart. Yet, the minute…
As young children, our minds are innocent. We don’t know what friendship means nor do we value it. We are curious about how everything works in the world by seeing everything as a challenge. Through these challenges comes consequences, and from our consequences, we learn what the right and wrong thing to do is. However, there was one time I had done something I am not proud of. My curiosity got the best of me and I almost lost my best friend. Seven years ago when I was about eight years old, I…
Eyal’s gleaming eyes watched her closely as she sipped her wine. Placing her glass gently on the table, Annie took a deep breath. Jerusalem had an air—a feeling she had never experienced before. She wanted to bask. The stress and trauma of the past couple of days dissipated. This place offered her relief, if only for a short time. The restaurant’s dim glow softened both of their features, and Annie caught Eyal staring more than once. She smiled to herself, pondering the idea of inviting him up…
"Do you remember how we met, dear?" It all began on the first day of high school, the day our friendship began. It was the third class of the day and I had so far failed at meeting anybody new. The teacher had already introduced himself and gone to sit down, leaving us to our own devices for the rest of the class time. I was too disheartened to try and make any new friends, so I pulled it a book and drowned out everyone else. I was in the middle of a riveting chapter when your voice…
In John Boyne’s narrative, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ (BISP), he presents narrative voice and other literary devices to show his ideas. The novel introduces a German boy in the mid holocaust, who has left Berlin to live in a house near Auschwitz. He meets a Jewish boy who is held in Auschwitz and become friends with him. Boyne explores the theme of friendship, innocence and the theme of arbitrary boundaries. He uses characterisation, symbolism and dramatic to convey his main ideas. In the…