friendship at 16
heres my hardcore english essay.
High school years present students with many activities and lessons that will influence their knowledge and experience for the rest of their lives. Learning the plural form of mitochondrion or that parents know what they have been doing by the smell of their breath and clothing, and everything in between, will hopefully stick with them through finals or the next party. Through it all though, few lessons compare to learning the power friendships have on someone’s life. Classmates, best friends, and love interests create many different relationships that a student can learn life lessons from. During high school, teenagers truly begin to learn the meaning of friendship and the challenges that come with it.
In high school, friendships become more complex than the “sharing is caring” friendships of grade school where a student’s definition of friendship rarely exceeds, “A friend is someone I play with.” In high school students give friendship a fuller meaning. From, “Someone who makes me laugh,” all the way to, “A person I can relate to, talk about any problems I’m having, and is always there for me,” the concept of friendship becomes at least a little bit more personal. The high school student knows which friend to talk to when he or she is feeling down, and which one is energetic and fun to hang out with. This knowledge shows how both “friends” have certain qualities that make them a friend and the differences between the two.
A student often becomes consumed by the obligations of friendship. Because the majority of students own cell phones and have access to the Internet, they can easily contact one another to make plans or just talk, oftentimes later at night when the former middle school students had their “bedtime,” and family time is readily sacrificed for an outing with friends. Getting to the event and paying for the various expenses are common problems for the younger high school student that has neither a license nor a job, and sometimes present dilemmas for older students as well. A student, however, would devote more time to getting the ride to see his or her friends than it would to writing an English paper, proving that friends are a higher priority for teenagers.
Friends greatly affect the decisions a student makes. High school students would rather go to a party that their friends say will be “cool” than stay at home because their parents tell them the same party will be “dangerous.” Whether or not kids decide to try drugs may depend on whether their friends try it or offer it to them, not the twenty minute lecture their parents gave before they left the house. Teenagers go to a friend first to talk about something personal because they value their friend’s opinions and believe their friend knows them best. If the “friend” gives them bad advice, and the high school student realizes it, that friendship will weaken and possibly disappear from a lack of trust.
A student should learn in high school what makes a friend and what type of friend he or she is. Good friends know to listen to one another and that they will help shape each other’s lives. Friendship teaches us how much we need other people and how important relationships are to our experience in life. With so much time devoted to relationships, high school students mature emotionally and begin to prepare themselves for more personal or romantic relationships and to meaningfully say, “I love you.”
“When you are in jail, a good friend will come to the station, bail you out, drive you home, and think nothing of it… A great friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, ‘Dude that RULED!’”
//J.T. Carter #7
Edit: got a 91. works for me. made the last few corrections too...
High school years present students with many activities and lessons that will influence their knowledge and experience for the rest of their lives. Learning the plural form of mitochondrion or that parents know what they have been doing by the smell of their breath and clothing, and everything in between, will hopefully stick with them through finals or the next party. Through it all though, few lessons compare to learning the power friendships have on someone’s life. Classmates, best friends, and love interests create many different relationships that a student can learn life lessons from. During high school, teenagers truly begin to learn the meaning of friendship and the challenges that come with it.
In high school, friendships become more complex than the “sharing is caring” friendships of grade school where a student’s definition of friendship rarely exceeds, “A friend is someone I play with.” In high school students give friendship a fuller meaning. From, “Someone who makes me laugh,” all the way to, “A person I can relate to, talk about any problems I’m having, and is always there for me,” the concept of friendship becomes at least a little bit more personal. The high school student knows which friend to talk to when he or she is feeling down, and which one is energetic and fun to hang out with. This knowledge shows how both “friends” have certain qualities that make them a friend and the differences between the two.
A student often becomes consumed by the obligations of friendship. Because the majority of students own cell phones and have access to the Internet, they can easily contact one another to make plans or just talk, oftentimes later at night when the former middle school students had their “bedtime,” and family time is readily sacrificed for an outing with friends. Getting to the event and paying for the various expenses are common problems for the younger high school student that has neither a license nor a job, and sometimes present dilemmas for older students as well. A student, however, would devote more time to getting the ride to see his or her friends than it would to writing an English paper, proving that friends are a higher priority for teenagers.
Friends greatly affect the decisions a student makes. High school students would rather go to a party that their friends say will be “cool” than stay at home because their parents tell them the same party will be “dangerous.” Whether or not kids decide to try drugs may depend on whether their friends try it or offer it to them, not the twenty minute lecture their parents gave before they left the house. Teenagers go to a friend first to talk about something personal because they value their friend’s opinions and believe their friend knows them best. If the “friend” gives them bad advice, and the high school student realizes it, that friendship will weaken and possibly disappear from a lack of trust.
A student should learn in high school what makes a friend and what type of friend he or she is. Good friends know to listen to one another and that they will help shape each other’s lives. Friendship teaches us how much we need other people and how important relationships are to our experience in life. With so much time devoted to relationships, high school students mature emotionally and begin to prepare themselves for more personal or romantic relationships and to meaningfully say, “I love you.”
“When you are in jail, a good friend will come to the station, bail you out, drive you home, and think nothing of it… A great friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, ‘Dude that RULED!’”
//J.T. Carter #7
Edit: got a 91. works for me. made the last few corrections too...