Relationship Development

Journal

My friendship with my best friend (Jennie)      

            My best friend and I met when we were 9 years old. It didn’t really matter how each other's behavior was because when kids get along, they play together like they've met for a while. Our friendship was like a roller coaster, we had many great times and also had many terrible moments. The great times were like memories that will never be erased whereas the bad moments, it helped us grow as an individual. Fighting makes us humans connect and understand more about each other. We also learn from our mistakes and make our friendship even stronger.

The first time we met was at my best friend's house. I don’t remember how we began knowing each other but probably there was something that got both of our attentions and we just started playing together. Maybe our likes and dislikes pulled our friendship together and we became friends. We began to share our dolls or toys and had many play dates. My parents would take me to her house at times so that we can hang out and play together at her back yard. Normally with stones and leaves.

Very frequently we would share our tiny little secrets such as crushes, our favorites...etc, and get to know each other better. There was many times where we would meet at each other's house to hangout or even write each other letters because she didn’t live around my neighborhood. Going to school, we would usually hang together and each lunch together. Other friends very often ask one of us where the 'other half' is when we're not together. During high school, we tend to look for each other at break time and just spend our break doing idleness. Most of the time, we would ask each other for different opinions such as choosing outfits, buying shoes..etc.  We had many things in common and it made us have an easier way to communicate.  We would go to parties or activities together and have sleep over's at each other's house. Becoming best friends were our formal bonding because we knew almost everything about each other and we shared mostly anything.

 Spending time together is not always likely to be good. As a human being we had many conflicts. We might not agree on something and tend to have tiny fights here and there. The good thing is that after we fight, we would always talk about it in the end and solve our problem and leave the fight behind us. There was no ignoring involved or breaking up of our friendship.