Friends and Peers

As a child there was no trick to making friends, it was very simple. My family moved to a new home when I was 6, just entering first grade, and the neighborhood kids automatically became my friends. It was like…
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We’ve all heard those lines and rhymes people use to describe friendship, but do we ever stop to think, “What do they mean?” Here’s one that makes no sense to me. “A friend in need is a friend in deed.”…
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How do you put your friendships to the test? Simple. You soon find out who your real friends are when you find yourself afloat in a sea of misery without a paddle. When you at most at need and you…
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There are only a few good reasons for ending a friendship. The main reason for ending a friendship is betrayal. If your friend steals or wants to steal your significant other from you, you should end the friendship. If your…
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My best friend once sent me a greeting card that said, “You’re more than a friend” and inside “You’re an accomplice”. This made me laugh out loud because in some ways it was true. Like the time we managed to…
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Making friends is as simple or as difficult as you make it. If you never leave your home, except to go to school or work, then you’ll likely not make any friends, unless you spend a large amount of time…
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Friendships, friendships can be defined, in many different ways. You could define it with many different words and special terms. Being a jerk about it. But, the thing is that you cannot define it with special words and hard to…
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Best friends: When friendship fails Some friendships last but a moment, a season. But true friendships last a lifetime, and can withstand time, trials, and the most stressful circumstances. It seems to me that there are three major reasons friendships…
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Friendship happens when two people meet, share mutual interests and contribute to the quality of each other’s life. It is someone you can share your inner most thoughts with and be assured they will not judge you. Friendships give us…
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I love the title. But, I am going to write about something which is against the title. I believe we have a circle of best friends or good friends in our lives. Why do we consider them as our best…
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Friendships are a valued treasure and become a major part of our lives so how do we cope when they break up for reasons we can not control.It is not easy to simply switch off and move on to different…
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If two-way communication does not exist between people, what they share probably doesn’t qualify as true friendship, (in the normal sense of the word, anyway). It may feel like friendship to one; the one who gets their needs met because…
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If its inspirational meaning you want, I must start my essay with my favorite quote. It is the silliest and most meaningless of the ten I’ll list, and maybe of all time. But, forgive me, it is also my personal…
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The telephone rang. It was a close friend calling to “break up” the friendship. She did not use those words, but that is exactly how it felt. Her voice was clearly saying, “I feel a sense of a need for closure.” The writer…
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The concept of being “passive-aggressive” was once categorized by psychologists as a disorder but has in more recent times been re-defined as a behavioral pattern. It is defined as a pattern of behavior in which the person can be sullen,…
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There are countless songs about friendship and the importance of friendship. Many songs convey a declaration of friendship, an appreciation, and even an admiration of their friend, but there are some that approach friendship at a deeper level a level…
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Friendship is an important part of life. It is possible to make it through life with few or no friends, but it is a rough and rocky road. Having healthy friendships in your life can benefit your emotional health, your…
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This is a difficult question to answer. You see I feel I know what it means to be a friend, but as my life has progressed I’m concerned that few others do. Our first experiences with friendship occur when as…
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Friendship without a reciprocal flow is really either self-centered infatuation for an “object”, fan like adoration for an idol, (such as a singer or movie star), or simply an attempt at friendship met with cool indifference. It is not real…
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Someone once wrote, True friends are rarer than fine jewels’ and in our fast paced frenzied, instant intimacy society, this certainly seems to be true. To have a friend, we must be a friend, and that means adhering to common…
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Music is the beautiful universal language that communicates the deepest of feelings and emotions. Since true friendship is valued so highly-something that we all innately desire and search for all of our lives-it is no wonder that friendship songs are…
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Friendship is essentially any human, unselfish bonding buoyed by a supportive, two way dialogue. The dialogue may be the spoken word or even an empathetic silence. “It is better to be in chains with friends than to be in a…
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Only recently have we stopped to define what makes a friendship healthy. Our endless self help industry has us questioning everything and everyone in our lives, including our friends. In my childhood, teens, and twenties, I didn’t much question my…
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It was a slow process. My closest girlfriend spoke to me less and less, and her eyes stopped lighting up when I shared something that was important to me. We’d been friends since high school and the trip came just…
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Isn’t it wonderful to look at your current level of friends, and the ones you had while growing up? I remember my first best friend Kathy, we called her Tootie, because she was always sounding off. She was a thin…
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The minimum cost of any friendship would always be our time and attention spent on that person. With that said, the maximum cost one could ever pay in a friendship would be the giving of ones heart. We all have…
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Ultimately, friendship should not be viewed in terms of how much it costs. A good friendship is a beautiful experience. The “cost” should only be measured if a friendship fails. Then you can see what impact it may have had…
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This title evokes the nasty old joke, with the word “make” having the wink, wink bedroom meaning: it takes me awhile to make a friend, but in a dimly-lit bar, just a few minutes to make an enemy. Actually, unlike…
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Getting past any internal issue takes time, patience and a lot of self honesty. Issues regarding friendship have been the most challenging for me to face head on. A simple event which occurred when I was an adolescent paved the…
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Friendship is forged on the qualities of trust, respect, honesty, communication, and unconditional love. The importance of these elements have been immortalized in five inspirational friendship quotations. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in…
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