Everyone wants to be my friend! Okay, maybe not everyone, but I do have a lot of friends. When I was a little boy, I thought if I tried hard enough, everybody in the world could be my best friend. I’m not exaggerating, almost every time I chatted with somebody, maybe when my mom and I were waiting in line to buy a cup of coffee and I talked to the gentleman in front of us for five seconds, I would turn to my mother and say, “Mommy! This is my best friend Mr. Tom!” As I grew older and wiser, I found that there are a lot of different kinds of friends.
Some friends will always take care of you; lifting you up when you fall. When I got into an argument with my best friend and I was in a foul mood, he wrote me a letter that probably repeated the words “will you be my friend again?” ten times! Best friends will share your same humor but can strike up a nice serious discussion, as easy as striking a match. Good friends should be hilarious, but not exceedingly silly, or else you’ll get tired of it. These are best friends, and you will only find one if you are crazy lucky. This friendship is like a line, which goes on forever on two directions.
Other people aren’t so lucky. Someone might want to be your best friend, and have a relationship like the above, but you may not be that interested. There is a kid in my school who fits all the things a best friend should have. He’s very mature, but when the time is right, he is also very humorous. I’m not the only one who feels that way though; so many others are already his friends. He just does not have space for me yet. In geometrical terms, the relationship can be described as a ray. A ray is not like a line. It only goes forever in one direction. Only one person is reaching out for friendship. You don’t need to be horrified at the fact that someone doesn’t want to be your friend, and you don’t have to be ashamed to reject a nice person who wants to be your friend. After all, you can’t expect everyone to be everyone’s friend.
Another type of friendship is a line segment, which ends eventually. You might have once been friends, but now, either one person doesn’t want to, or can’t be the other’s friend any more. The sad event can happen for many reasons; maybe you got into a fight, or you saw their true colors and decided you didn’t like them, or simply you moved to a new town. Your friendship may have ended, or at least the “forever” part is gone, but you still have a whole line segment of infinitely many points, each another memory.
So what if a person isn’t a friend at all? You might not like his behavior and personality. He doesn’t like yours too. Maybe he’s too physical, any reason that doesn’t make him a good friend to you. Maybe you aren’t physical enough. In that case, that person will be just a point. A point doesn’t go anywhere with you.
Friendship can be described in so many gorgeous ways. This description only grazes the surface of a sea filled with friendship. The sunny days brings hundreds of new line friends, and stormy ones introducing point “friends”, and all of the kinds in between, each day bringing a new friend. That is a treasure to me and it shines like a gemstone in my heart.
Some friends will always take care of you; lifting you up when you fall. When I got into an argument with my best friend and I was in a foul mood, he wrote me a letter that probably repeated the words “will you be my friend again?” ten times! Best friends will share your same humor but can strike up a nice serious discussion, as easy as striking a match. Good friends should be hilarious, but not exceedingly silly, or else you’ll get tired of it. These are best friends, and you will only find one if you are crazy lucky. This friendship is like a line, which goes on forever on two directions.
Other people aren’t so lucky. Someone might want to be your best friend, and have a relationship like the above, but you may not be that interested. There is a kid in my school who fits all the things a best friend should have. He’s very mature, but when the time is right, he is also very humorous. I’m not the only one who feels that way though; so many others are already his friends. He just does not have space for me yet. In geometrical terms, the relationship can be described as a ray. A ray is not like a line. It only goes forever in one direction. Only one person is reaching out for friendship. You don’t need to be horrified at the fact that someone doesn’t want to be your friend, and you don’t have to be ashamed to reject a nice person who wants to be your friend. After all, you can’t expect everyone to be everyone’s friend.
Another type of friendship is a line segment, which ends eventually. You might have once been friends, but now, either one person doesn’t want to, or can’t be the other’s friend any more. The sad event can happen for many reasons; maybe you got into a fight, or you saw their true colors and decided you didn’t like them, or simply you moved to a new town. Your friendship may have ended, or at least the “forever” part is gone, but you still have a whole line segment of infinitely many points, each another memory.
So what if a person isn’t a friend at all? You might not like his behavior and personality. He doesn’t like yours too. Maybe he’s too physical, any reason that doesn’t make him a good friend to you. Maybe you aren’t physical enough. In that case, that person will be just a point. A point doesn’t go anywhere with you.
Friendship can be described in so many gorgeous ways. This description only grazes the surface of a sea filled with friendship. The sunny days brings hundreds of new line friends, and stormy ones introducing point “friends”, and all of the kinds in between, each day bringing a new friend. That is a treasure to me and it shines like a gemstone in my heart.
