Definition Essay: What Does Friendship Mean?

People build relationships upon trust and compatibility, but what exactly does the word

‘’friend’’ mean? The person who keeps you grounded, the eyes needed when you can't see

what is realistic and what is not, the ears that listen. A friendship could be a long lasting thing or

a short lived moment between two people. A sudden change in life, distance, or betrayal could

sever this friendship.

Why would a sudden life change affect me and my friends friendship? Both may be in

different parts in your life which may need more of your attention, such as a baby; also a new

job could also be a major reason of ending a friendship. Your friend may be holding you back

from succeeding in other courses of your life and you may not even

realize it. Moreover, you

would almost naturally distance yourself from the other person to reach your goals in life. In her

poem ‘Changes’ Yanill Rodriguez writes ‘’But somewhere along the line, we slowly came apart.

I was here, and you were there it tore a hole in my heart’’ For example, me, my best friend got

married and had a beautiful baby boy she no longer had time for me and my silly childish

games. She was now a wife and mother of one with other bigger responsibilities and I had just

started my senior year of high school. We were both in different places in our lives; we no longer

had anything in common. Resulting in a distant relationship slowly dissipating to nothing.

Distance could be something overcome if you truly keep contact with one another,but in

most cases that isn't what happens. When a friend moves away to another state or country it

then begins to test the strength of your friendship.

At first you may call, text, email, skype etc.

However, after a short term you will start to meet new people and begin to adventure the new

location you’re in. Long phone calls and text messages now becomes rare phone call and one

word messages. The friendships becomes diluted.

We trust our friends not to betray us, and to share our happiness with us. One never

imagines a friend would be capable of betraying your trust. Betrayal may start off as a beautiful

friendship, and end up becoming pure hatred for one another; a constant battle to shun one

another. They become so caught up in themselves and irrational issues. Sometimes they

change into something you don't even know; they turn on you. Whether it be that they change or

stop carrying it ALWAYS hurts, a lot. You lose trust for the other person and as you go on you

may try to pick up the broken pieces, but you will never have the same relationship you had

before. As a result, you will begin to drift apart.

Hence more, one needs to find comfort in a friendship to allow it to grow. A friendship

could be easily destroyed than it is to build a long strong healthy

one.