Jessika

Friendship

“A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else…” Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people.  It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. To me the true meaning of friendship is what I have with this one individual.  We have become close friends, through all of the good times and even closer through rougher times which has enabled us to get to that point where we no longer have to do or say anything to understand what either of us are feeling or thinking.  We met each other during the summer before freshman year at cross country practice not knowing that this would be the beginning of a great friendship.  Little did we know that the two different lives that we lived had so much in common; we both have annoying siblings that we love no matter what, we were both athletic… well at least one of us carried on with that, we both have the same sense of humor and laugh at the same jokes, but most importantly we both have the same personality that just clicked as soon as we met.  Later on when freshman year started, we found out that we had been put into the same classes, which we were really excited about.  Throughout the course of that year, we bonded and grew closer as friends, but it was that time of the year where we were no longer freshman and summer had come.  We had so many things planned for the summer but as those two months passed, we found ourselves not being able to do any of those things because we both had many family events that we both had to attend which never left anytime for us. The beginning of sophomore year had arrived and once again we’ve been put into the same class by chance.  We started catching up on lost times that we had not been able to fill during the previous summer and just like that it was like we had never parted. Junior year was the one year that we didn’t share a class but that didn’t stop the great friendship we had. The years came and went and senior year had come.  Hoping to be in at least one class together for our last year of high school, we had been denied of that which made us really sad.  We had already went through one year of not having classes together after two years of having classes together, but somehow by chance she had gotten transferred into the same English class.  The moment she stepped foot into that door, we immediately starred at each other and started laughing because we knew it was going to be a great year.  Now our senior year is coming to an end, it’s a bittersweet moment, but as we soon part ways in our different decisions in where we want our futures to start, I know that no matter where life takes us, we will always have each other to talk to and we can always pick up where we left off.  This is what true friendship means to me and forever will our friendship last. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversations, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part…”