Friendship Essay.

I wrote and essay for school about friendship and I thought I'd share with you. Enjoy.

Friends
By Andy Lovell

Friends are very important to me. I don’t know how I could function without my friends. I know I take them for granted, but I also have those moments when they’re a life saver. For this, I am extremely grateful for the friends in my life. I believe that God created both Christians and humans, in general, to be in fellowship with others. No matter how much we may think we can do it alone, we truly need friends in our lives.
Friends keep me accountable all the time. They are great for that. My friends know the true me, and when I do something that isn’t me or something that isn’t in my best interests, they aren’t afraid to come and talk to me about it or keep me in line. I may not like it at the moment, but they are doing what is best for me. I always look back and realize how helpful it was for them to confront me about a certain situation. In the end it is what is best for me.
Friends are people I can always go to for advice. Before I even go to my parents for advice, I go to my friends. If I am facing a tough situation in life, they are always there to tell me what I should do or talk me through it. In turn, I’m there for my friends when they need advice or support. Through that, my friendships become stronger. I trust my friends more because they have given me advice and vice versa. I’m very grateful for the advice my friends have given me.
I can always be myself around my friends. Mainly because they could care less what I look like or how I act. True friends are your friends simply because they like you the way you are. After a long day, it’s always nice to hang out with friends and just kick back and be yourself. I can be as ridiculous or as crazy as I want to be and they could care less. If anything they enjoy it. I don’t have to be someone I’m not when I am with them.
Friends are one of the most important things in my life. Friends are a lot like a getaway vacation where you can just relax and be yourself. Spending time with friends is ultimately my favorite way to spend my time. The friends I have are great and I wouldn’t trade them for anyone else. Even though everyone takes friends for granted, it’s important to remember how great they are.

Rummy.

It has become a regular and routine activity for my mother and I to play rummy every night. Usually we will play a few rounds, my brother will come home from work, and he will join the game. It's really quite enjoyable. My mother and I both are becoming very good at the game. We definitely dominate at it. We're actually preparing. My grandmother is a genius - and not only at playing rummy. If my mother and I dominate, then my grandmother? Well she destroys. We're hoping to show her a challenge. But who knows, she may just be un-defeatable. Only one way to find out.

Well my brother moved back home. (Yes, the one who plays rummy with my mother and I) And he has name - Matt. He lived with my aunt, uncle, and grandmother (Yes, the one who "destroys" at rummy.) in North Carolina for about 6 months. He's basically making a pit stop. Eventually he will move to California. More on that later.

Since we talked about Matt, we should probably talk about my other brother - Josh. He attends Lee University in Cleveland. He is a sophmore and as far as I can tell, he likes it as much as the average person can like education. He comes home every now and then on the weekends. More importantly he brings the XBox. Just kidding, his being home is obviously more important than the XBox. (wink) That's pretty much all for Josh.

School. OMG. I never say OMG, but in this case I feel it is necessary and/or needed. I'm am very ready to get out of middle school. Really I am. And I don't even know where I am going to high school. And it's time to enroll. AND I dread the process. I would keep talking about this but it will put me in a bad mood.

My life right now is good. I have to keep a good atitude about things. My belief - you decide how good or bad your life is.