Friends

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“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” In this paper I am going to discuss three major types of friends. These types are the ideal friend, “so-called” friend, and acquaintance. All of these people can be considered friends, though some of them should be considered acquaintances.

The ideal friend is very hard to find, but even harder to ever forget. The ideal friend is the type of friend that will never betray you, lie to you, or do something that will ultimately bring you down, for any reason. This type of person will never, intentionally, do anything to hurt you, no matter what the circumstances may be. This person will always be there to give you a hand to help in all situations that he or she can.

The “so-called” friends are the type of friends that will do most things exactly the opposite of what an ideal friend would do. These types of friends will belittle you when you are not around, but pretend to be a friend when you are. These people will lie to you, though at the time you don’t know it, and they will even steal from you. These friends will betray you at the first opportunity if it can help them along. These friends are not to be relied upon, trusted, or believed for any reason, once they have shown themselves for what the truly are. These people can come over as an ideal friend, but be careful because they really aren’t.

Acquaintances are merely other humans that you have met in your lifetime, perhaps spoken to and never developed a close bond with. You may think that these people actually are there for you and that they care so should be called friends, but usually they do not turn out to be a friend to you. Acquaintances are merely people that a pleasant conversation can be held with, but not people that you should care enough about to value their opinions over anyone else’s. This type of perso...