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Friendship
May 18, 2012 ? Abigail Potvin, Staff Reporter ?
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Friends are defined as people who share an affectionate relationship with another person, often times excluding family and sexual relations. Friends/friendship has a large scale of bonds; these relations vary from strong as though they are attached at the hip to the occasional person to talk to and express your feelings. It comes in many shapes and forms and changes how we interact with society and how we excel to some degree. You may be wondering what people feel about friends, well you came to the right place. The Beachcomber is going to take you through the minds of Mission Bay High School students and their views on friendship.
The relationships between people vary from strong to light and can be a direct reflection with the type of person someone is. The Beachcomber is going to explore the different types of friendships and how they affect people. The first relationship we are going to analyze is the close knit acquaintances that we see around our school that are most commonly known as best friends. When talking to fellow student, Chohee Park, she explained how the best friends are of great importance to her by saying, ?For me, I think it is best friends, because I can go to them about anything and they will not judge me regardless and support me. Also, they guide me through my indecisive moments. They also are there through the tears and the smiles.? This is just one example of the importance of friends and the relief friend?s offer from high pressure situations.
You may be wondering why people put so much importance on friendship and what the benefits of having these interconnections are the benefits change with the strength of the relationship and the type of people who make up the relationship. When discussing friendship with Madison Sweet she explained, ?My best-friend is someone I laugh and tell everything to knowing that she will except me and be there for me regardless.? This one example of how friendships reap benefits, but there is a down side to these acquaintances. The stress of being a good friend and being well liked effects many people and sometimes out weighs the benefits of friendship.
A true friend is someone you can rely on no matter the situation and you can be yourself around and they will always be there to support you regardless of the situation you?re in. These friends are often hard to find because the truth behind it is something unusual. True friends can come when you are only an infant or they enter your life at a later time, but the fact is that everyone will have at least one true friend and the qualifications of a true friends depends on the person in the relationship. According to Emily Newell, ?The relationship between true friends is something to be cherished and even though it may take time to find your true friends it?s worth it.? This is just one explanation of how students and people place true friends in their life.
In every relationship there are problems that occur between people, whether it is life altering or just a simple fight they do happen. In rare cases a fight with a friend escalates into a person losing all their ties with other friends and even with people who weren?t their friends prior to the fight. Friendships carry many benefits and can lead to a lot of destruction. Anonyms stated, ?When I was younger my best friend and I had a problem and it escalated into everyone taking her side and everyone made fun of me and I spent lunches in the counselors because of her.? That is a demonstration of how student end up being black balled from what used to be a good friendship.
So what it is the big deal about friendship and why is it important to have friends maybe may be things you have been asking yourself recently. Well, as you read so far it?s a support system like no other and they offer an occasional smile to the daily monotony. Friendships should only be kept if it is a healthy, you are happy, and it is not hazardous to health or well-being. Friends are critical to life and making it through school because they?re somebody to vent to, turn to in times of crisis, or just someone to laugh with.
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