Loss of My Best Friend Essay

essentially a guide on how to live out our faith the best way humanly possible. The tactics shown in this book are not only things that will impact our lives as Christians in a positive manner, but also everyone around us. Good Faith taught me how to continue to grow in my relationships with non-believers, and also gave me some tips for troubling times I may experience in the future as a parent concerning controversial topics. My best friend of the last five years, Curtis, confessed to me in…

Before we begin, I would personally like to say that this was a great assignment for me and my colleagues to do. I say this because, everyone needs to have an understanding on how their thoughts influence their emotions. It is something that is always overlooked, and something that we all as human beings can improve on. Why? For the simple fact, that gaining a better understanding of your thoughts, could possibly allow you to handle things easier in your future. And I honestly believe that this…

unintentional. My connection with my cousin Summer was a very strong one until she moved back to California. I had some friends who were best friends at one time, but as time digressed, so did they. Then there is the most significant loss of connection that I have had and that was with my ex girlfriend. Some connections and relationships last in life and then there are some that have a loss of connection. Growing up I was never one of those kids who went and stayed the night with a friend. I had…

when it comes to loss. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, black, white, straight or gay. Everyone experiences loss in their life, whether it’s a loved one, a job opportunity or even your house. Loss is illustrated differently in the novels “The Things They Carried”, a compendium of the Vietnam experiences from the point of view of a platoon, by Tim O’Brien and “The Catcher in the Rye”, a coming of age novel, by J.D Salinger. In, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, loss is dealt with…

on the frontlines of Afghanistan. During a maneuver that went terribly wrong, Kyle Wincott was mortally wounded. Max was traumatized by the loss of his best friend, Kyle and was unable to remain in service; therefore, he is shipped stateside to Kyle’s family to recuperate. Max’s trauma was multiplied considering he witnessed Kyle’s so called boyhood friend, Tyler, shoot him; additionally, Tyler would have shot Max if the other soldiers had not shown up on the scene. Kyle’s younger brother,…

A Loss Too Well Remembered This was a rather interesting assignment, one that I did not believe I would able to complete. I had so many ideas of what I wanted to write about, that is until I remembered my best friend. My very first best friend was more like a brother to me. We had a very close relationship. If I were to let my mom tell it, we were inseparable. Just as quickly as our friendship began, it ended. Although I was only three years old, I still remember it as if it were yesterday. We…

large crowds, adulthood, school and mental concepts terrify people. The most terrifying thing I’ve experienced, with my subjective fears in mind, was my all-too-sudden move from California to Michigan in late 2016. The song “Fragments” by An Unkindness, which I recently discovered, presents the fear I had with social perfection, rejection, and loss of relationships. Late 2016, my parents had let me know that in the next 2 months, we would be leaving our home in Carlsbad, California to a new…

Loss can be defined as the process of losing someone or something. It is a hard process everyone experiences, including me. I have been very fortunate in my life. At the age of sixteen, I still have both sets of grandparents which means I have never been through a death in the family, yet I still understand what loss feels like. The loss I went through only involves one person- myself. Life does not give you a choice on whether you want to grow up or not. If it were that easy, I would choose to…

To explain my reasoning behind lack of men volunteering “Best Friends” will be used as an example. “Best Friends” is a non-profit Catholic organization dealing with patients having varied ranges of dementia. Dementia is defined by the Alzheimer’s Association as “an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities” (Alzheimer’s Association [AA], 2011). The…

A friend of mine is a single mother of two young children who has struggled financially for several years after her boyfriend and she broke up. The father of her children is not involved anymore by choice and does not support any of them nor help with any kind of child support. She works full time and does her best to support her children. Even though she does not enjoy her job and the pay isn’t the best she has not found something else that works well with her schedule. She was struggling with…