Friends

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to
you when you have forgotten the words. Good morning to the panel of
honourable judges, teachers and friends. On this fine morning, I would like to talk
about “Friends”.

On this planet, who can’t live without friends? Everyone. Bart Simpson would
have died of boredom with his sister, Lisa. That would not happen because he
has Milhouse of The Simpsons to tag along with him. We need our peers to live
our lives, to joke around, and to help us with our mischievous plots. Who would
dare to tell an adult about our plans?

Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel through whom great

emotional and spiritual blessings flow. Friends will cheer us up when we are full
of depression. With eyes full of sorrow, we are bound to get attention the
moment our friends notice. We usually just want them to hang around with us, to
have a good time, to act silly and just be ourselves.

Remember the guy you had a crush on? That oh so hot Edward Cullen in
Twilight? With his delicious sultry blue eyes and charming British accent that
would make your heart melt the instant he talks. During the days our favourite
Hollywood artistes are famous, we tend to get carried away to Day Dream Land.
Students our age are most probably to tell our buddies on how awesome they
are. I’m sure none of you would go screaming to your mum and say “Mum!
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen is soooo hot! I’m going to read the third book
later.” She would have said, “Stop reading all those vampire stories and get back
to studying.” Will your friends react the same way as your mum? Of course not.
They would sit down with you and say, “Totally. I wish I’m Kristen Stewart. I
would get to act and hang out with him off set. Acting as Bella would be so cool.”
This settles it. Our spirits would have been brought down if we didn’t have any
friends.

As well as our fantasy world, our buddies are on the job as our ‘Fashion Police’.
We would be ‘fined’ if we wear bell-bottoms with a T-shirt, which your mum told
you to, to our graduation ceremony. With our friends, we could choose the
appealing dress with stiletto boots which would look awesome in front of a
crowd. You can save a major fashion disaster.

Friends are like peanut butter and jelly. They always stick together. Who else
other than your best friend would help you walk to the infirmary when you broke
a foot while playing basketball? We always stick together anywhere we go. One
of us never follows. We walk side by side. We treat ourselves as equals. Always
be humble and never brag on things that you own. One would never treat the
other like leaves on the ground. Good friends are precious and rare like
diamonds. Very hard to find. We should never cast our friends aside.
Friends are like angels without wings. Some may be devils in disguise. Exactly
like the song ‘Fly on The Wall’ by Miley Cyrus. The song tells about a person
whom you trusted and thought he was nice. Actually, he was betraying the one
he ‘so called’ cared. We should never betray our friends’ secrets to the world of
rumour-hungry people. As well as secrets, we shouldn’t cancel our get-together
at the last minute.

There’s only a few minutes left until an exam starts. You realised that you
haven’t memorised the important facts yet. Who else other than your closest
buddy will sit next to you and repeat the words over and over again and
hopefully remain in your brain for the next 60 minutes.

A lot of people go through life with only a few friends. It seems that some have
less than that. They have no one they can call in good times or bad. There is no
one with whom to bounce ideas around, or to talk about deep and troubling
subjects. They have no one to call in times of need or difficulty. They are
standing alone, being an outcast.

When we are bored, we could SMS our friends with our fingers at the speed of
lightning. Or even go to their house to catch up with the latest gossip. For most
tech-savvy people, they prefer going to chat rooms on the internet and interact
with people of different experiences. Besides chatting, we are able to join
networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. On these sites, we
are able to search for long-lost friends as well as new people. These ways won’t
make us lonely as we could interact with our friends in a different way.

As life goes on, we meet different people each time. Some turned out to be our
buddies. Friends come and go. We lose some and gain a lot more. Some friends
stay right by your side while others go the opposite way. There are times when
one of your friends becoming the matchmaker of your future life, and succeeds.
Good or bad friends come and go. But there’s one thing for sure, we can’t live
without them. Here is a poem on friends:-

A friend is someone we turn to

When our spirits need a lift,

A friend is someone we treasure

For our friendship is a gift,

A friend is someone who fills our lives

With beauty, joy, and grace

And makes the whole world we live in

A better and happier place.

With that, I thank you.