Thoughts of a Female Teen

Graham Dodd

Friendship is a funny thing. Everyone has their own ideas, own opinions on how friends should treat them. The funny thing is that people aren’t thinking of their friends. They are just thinking of how their friends treat them, or act towards them, or what they tell them and so on. Exactly. Exactly wrong. True friendship starts with selflessness. It isn’t even about how much you know about your friends. Being a friend isn’t knowing why your friend is sad, it’s making yourself look stupid and acting like a fool to get them to laugh and have a better day; being a friend is taking your friend’s place when they are being made fun of; its going out of your way to do something nice to them; it’s taking the blame for them when they are up to their neck already; it’s cancelling plans to be with them when they really need it; it’s giving them a compliment and an encouraging word, it’s telling their new boyfriend or girlfriend that if they break your friend’s heart then you’ll break his or her face; it’s believing in them; it’s making them feel like their Special, Important, Worth Something,

I Strive everyday to be this person, to be this friend, it’s hard. It’s hard when my friends, those I love so much, don’t see it. They don’t see my efforts. And worse of all, they don’t return the efforts. It hurts. And it tears at my heart. Each of my friends has a piece of it, and its getting really hard to give more of it away, for fear that I won’t get anyone’s back L

-Figuring out Friendship, Female, Age. 17