by Wyeth De Leon

Created on: February 22, 2009   Last Updated: February 23, 2009

What is the reason or the significance of friendship to us people? Do we really need friends for a company, to have fun with, and to crack jokes with? Or do we really need friends for us to be taken cared of and give our affection?

Being a teenager I think I had met all the kind of friends since I was in grade school. When I was in grade school up-to High school I had a large group of friends whom I shared my downfalls, happiness, my sorrows, and my purpose in life. That time I told to myself that I was really satisfied with my friends now because they are always there for me, giving me advices, encouraging me to move on from the past and face the future. But my greatest fear happened, It was the high school graduation and my friends and I really doesn't know if we will all meet each other again. After the graduation, some left the Philippines, some went to the province, and the rest was like me staying in the city where we all grew up but now we are studying in different schools and that is the main reason why all of us meet rarely, because of the hectic schedules that we all have.

When I stepped to the stage of being a college student, I told to myself that whatever happens I will never give up and I can find friends like what I had when I was in gradeschool up to Highschool. Happily, I found a great number of friends where I thought that they were like my other friends. But the saddest thing to know is they are the opposite of my real friends. I was used to share my stories, my life, and my other secrets to my friends that's why I also did that to my untrue friends in college. I thought they can really keep secrets and promises but I was wrong. They stabbed me from the back by saying negative things, insults about me, but the worse thing of all is all of what they said was a lie. But unfortunately the people believed them that's why I became depressed and didn't know what to do. I came to the point to stop my schooling because of what they did but I realized that I have two friends left in that University. They are my two bestfriends, "Joy" and "Patrick", they comforted me and defended me from the rumors that the other people were talking about. I realized that I should not give up because there are still true friends/people who will not leave me alone and who will give importance to my worth.

Since then I have only two true friends here in college, If they are not with me, I stand up and make myself prove to others that I can be an Independent Person because in the end no one will help you but only yourself. Really big group of friends are fun, enjoyable and entertaining but we should always know the true roles of a friend. That is A great friend will never stab you in the back no matter what argue you had because she/he knows that you deserve to be respected.

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