Definition Essay Friendship
I chose the term friendship but contemplated with choosing the term addiction from the list, in my opinion friendship is much harder to define. I believe everyone has their own version of what friendship is, thus the reason why it is so hard to define. The word “friend” and the suffix “-ship” makes up the word friendship. By definition “friend” means “a person whom you share a bond of mutual affection for”, and “-ship” is just a suffix for nouns. Once added together to create “friendship”, the definition changes to “the state of being a friend” or “a friendly relation or intimacy”. Friendship means to me unfiltered truth, companionship, loyalty and sacrifice.
Not always is a friend someone with whom there is a mutual affection, but rather …show more content…
For example, how is it that someone that I have spent hours with day after day in the classroom and again after school sitting side by side at each other’s kitchen table, helping one another with school priorities as well as personal priorities, but yet find out that the very same person has vandalized my house. The trigger for this was a refusal to extend a courtesy to move in together after high school. I found that I was unable to make that commitment, so I was honest and expressed that I could not make that level of a commitment. Granted that this friend assumed that I would agree to the co-habitation and the financial security that comes with it. Easy to say that my refusal then affected all of his other plans for how he envisioned his future. Given the magnitude, I could see how he felt justified in affecting my current residence as I robbed him of his hope for a residence with me elsewhere. However, his actions are a criminal offense, destruction of personal property; whereas, my actions are not a punishable crime. My actions were rational and fair, based on sound principles of money management. My actions were not fantastical or emotional, and his reactions were. Needless to say, we are no longer
Not always is a friend someone with whom there is a mutual affection, but rather …show more content…
For example, how is it that someone that I have spent hours with day after day in the classroom and again after school sitting side by side at each other’s kitchen table, helping one another with school priorities as well as personal priorities, but yet find out that the very same person has vandalized my house. The trigger for this was a refusal to extend a courtesy to move in together after high school. I found that I was unable to make that commitment, so I was honest and expressed that I could not make that level of a commitment. Granted that this friend assumed that I would agree to the co-habitation and the financial security that comes with it. Easy to say that my refusal then affected all of his other plans for how he envisioned his future. Given the magnitude, I could see how he felt justified in affecting my current residence as I robbed him of his hope for a residence with me elsewhere. However, his actions are a criminal offense, destruction of personal property; whereas, my actions are not a punishable crime. My actions were rational and fair, based on sound principles of money management. My actions were not fantastical or emotional, and his reactions were. Needless to say, we are no longer