Real Friend

Do you have real friends? Or even one? There are many people who have a lot of friends; in fact, they don’t have any real friends. I was one of those kinds of people. Today, I’m going to talk about my experience how did I get my real friend. I had many experience of losing friends. In specific, they backstabbed me. That time, I was too stupid that even though they didn’t like me, but I still liked them, and believed them as my friends. But I found out that they REALLY hate me, so I became far from them. I was very sad but there is saying, ‘If you loose something, you will get something.’ It was true. After losing some of my friends, I got new friends. But still, they are just my friends, not a real friend. It took almost 2~3years to find my real friend.

His name is Eric, 1 year younger than me. I met him in my past school. When we saw each other at first, we REALLY hated each other. I hated him because he was so rude to other people. He did such thing as bullying younger kids, getting money from them, saying bad words, spitting on the floor, something it seems bad. I don’t know why he was acting like that until now. Anyway, we have known each other for 9 months. It is too short to become real friend, but for me, it doesn’t matter about the time, the important thing is how much do you know about that person. We became really close just 3 months ago. As I have said, we were in the same school, and we were classmate. There was one time, we didn’t talk for 5months because I fought one of my friend who is his roommate. According to him, he couldn’t talk to me because he was scared that if he will talk to me, his roommate would hate him (what a childish thing). But I didn’t like that kind of situation because we are classmate, I started to talk to him first. And because of that, he started talking to me! Every minute, he will call me and he will say “Luna! How do you do this?” “Luna! Can I borrow a pen?” “Luna!Luna!Luna!” good thing I was happy, If not, definitely I will get angry because I’m so annoyed. And we hang out every weekend, talk our problems. When get to know about him, I found out that he is really a man. Even though he is younger than me, and acting as if he is a 3 years old boy, inside, he is so matured. Because of that, I considered him as my real friend and he also considered me as his real friend. Everybody said that man and woman couldn’t be a friend. I also believed that because most of my guy friends, at first, they wanted me to be their friends, but later they will ask me to become their girlfriend. But this guy, Eric, he is really different. If he considers someone to be his friend, he or she is really a friend. That’s the most thing I really like about him. Even my mother was thinking like me that later, he would be asking me to become his girlfriend. But when I introduced Eric to my mom, she was surprise that he is really different. Before, we fought EVERYDAY because Eric and I, we will not think first before we say something. Because of that, we told to each other stop being friend, starting today, we don’t know each other something like that. But the fight doesn’t last for 1 week. Always I apologize, because I know that he is so shy enough that he can’t say sorry first. These days, we don’t fight. We don’t know, may be, we know that each other well? I’m really happy to meet my Eric. Even though we are not in the same school, we still contact each other, meet each other. I will do my best to keep this friendship for a long time. Now, let me ask you. Do you have a real friend??

Friendship

“No man is an island.” This famous adage often goes with topics like friendship. Every time I ponder about people as social individuals (well, I think we all are), this saying can’t stop popping out of my mind. This reminds me very well of an essay that I’ve written about a couple years ago (it was a writing activity given to us).

I always believe that friendship is one of the most important things that people should deal with. It is as a measurement of how well-defined we are as social individuals. It is a measurement of how we’ve grown up to be someone with peers or the so-called friends.

Friends, just like our family, are important part of our lives. They are like specially-picked ingredients in a secret garden to continually spice up our lives (not that I consider them as something that could be eaten though). Without them, there’s something in us that feels incomplete. With their absence, there’s a part of us that’s left unsolved like a jigsaw puzzle.

Friends are people whom we can turn to in times of trouble. They are the ones who are willing to offer a shoulder for us to cry on. I, myself, have tried this for a number of times (it’s not that I cry most of the time). I have proven that friends are the ones who stay behind us when we’re falling, and they are always willing to extend a helping hand when we’re down. They are the ones who understand when everybody else seems to have misunderstood us. My friends (whom I also consider as my siblings) are precious to me. I always tell them my secrets (especially ones that I can’t tell my parents). This is because they also tell me their secrets, which their parents don’t know of as well. I think, they really consider me as one of their closest friends because they share their secrets. For me, this is one thing that friends should do if they really are close with each other. I feel lucky for all of my friends share secrets with me (even my guy friends do!). Well, I think I’ve proven myself as a good friend for I make friends easily (this doesn’t mean that I don’t choose people I befriend). It’s because most people say that I’m a happy person, and it seems like when I’m around, people seem to be energized with the happy personality I show them. It seems like that I’ve got the whole place glowing with my vibrant personality.(this line makes me imagine of myself in the middle of a room with the angel-wings widespreadJ).

I guess I’ve written a lot. My friends just inspire me to write about them. Till next time folks! Keep smiling to gain more friends!