Switched-On :: Blog

True friends are like family to me. When the chips are down, they will still support you, no matter what you do, or how you react to things. They love you for who you are, not what you are, or what you do, or how rich you are. Friends aren’t your friends for what you are as like if you were famous. They aren’t friends if they only like what you do, like acting, or do football. And friends are NOT gold-diggers. They don’t suck up just get some of your money, or gifts and all of that. They are your friends because they like your characteristics, not your stats. They don’t care what you look like, or came from, they’re always there for you. There like family, will always be there to support and love you no matter what. If your not a true friend, you need to learn how to be a true friend.
- Matt

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”, -Mother Teresa. I completely agree with this, because no one wants to feel unwanted. Feeling unwanted, not welcome, rejected, un-loved, for me is the WORST poverty that can happen. I mean, no one wants to feel rejected, as an outcast, and everyone wants to be loved. If you were lonely, there would be no comfort for you. No one would care about you, or what you think. I would rather be rich in friends than money. Being rich, yet still be poor is like one person could be rich in power and money, but still be poor with friends, and love. A great example is a rich snotty kid that gets whatever he wants, even friends. Though he doesn’t know that the friends are fake because he treats them like çráp, and then in the end he is left alone. Well, that wasn’t the “greatest” example, but you get my point. So the moral of this is be friendly, and don’t exclude anyone, because their suffering the most terrible poverty.
- Matt

Friends are supposed to be there for you, right? A good friend would risk multiple things for you, but a true friend would risk their life for you, like in Toy Story 2, right? In reality, life doesn’t work like that. Some of us have a LOT of friends, some of us are always not fitting in, or have no or not many friends at all. I don’t know how many of you have a loving caring family like me, but your family IS your friend. They will accept no matter what you do. Your family might just be angry with you for a little bit, but they will ALWAYS love you. So if you don’t have friends, you know you have your family. Friends are everywhere, you just have to search with a little bit of kindness.
- Matt

Some of us may have a few or a lot of friends. It does not matter how many we have. Having a few close friends is as awesome as a lot of friends. What matters is how we treat our friends. Having friends is a part of life; otherwise we may feel lonely in the world. It is easy to make friends when we are young and keep them as we grow older. We just need to learn if those friends are worth keeping. As we grow older we gain new friends. The trick to keeping these friends is communicating with them. There may be fights but be mature about the situation when you try to fix it. You also need to know if you guys can actually get along. Not being able to get along does not help the relationship at all. Knowing who your real friends are will help you be the person you are.
- Tatiana