What is the best time for making new friends? What was your best friendship? Are you still friends with him or her? What life lessons did you learn from this relationship?
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Victoria Vedron
2/21/2010 09:21:16 am
I have a lot of friends. Most of them are my former schoolmates.But my bosom friend is Lena. She is 50. Lena is pretty in her own way. We have been known each other since 15 years old. We had finish high school, College and University together.Since that school time we are treat each other with respect and love.
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Kim Nguyen
2/21/2010 12:19:03 pm
The best time to make friend is when your child. When you are young you can talk a lot and have a lot of friend. My best friend is in vietnam. I have be friends with her for a long time. I think when i was ten i was friend with her. When we argue and get mad we are still friend. She is alway my best friend when i move to America too. I met her from my friend too. We alway used to play together and drink coffee. My family and her family are close.
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Toan Nguyen
2/22/2010 06:35:15 am
I had a best birthday at last year. I will never forget it with many reasons. First of all, I didn’t have any celebrate birthday before. I came into America when I was 20 years old. When my birthday was coming, I thought I still didn’t have a birthday. Member of my family celebrated birthday for me but I didn’t know that. Suddenly I cried because I was so glad and felt happy. People gathered around me and sang happy birthday to me. After that I wished and blew the candles. I wished everybody were always happy and successful. They gave to me many gifts. When I opened those. I felt so interested and I said thank you to everybody. I will never forget it because it was my first birthday. I had a wonderful birthday. That was my happiest day.
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HAMID.H
2/22/2010 02:12:26 pm
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Paraskoviya Moskalenko
2/23/2010 10:34:46 am
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Shahla A
2/23/2010 12:46:25 pm
For me the best time to make new friends was the time I was in high school. I had a very close and wonderful friendship with a girl named Fatimah in high school. We were friends for many years in Iran. After we finished high school we went together to the International University in Teheran Iran. Our major was English literature and French .Even after we were married we continued our relationship. When we were in the university we studied together and also had fun together to go to see movies with our sisters. We talked to each other about everything that happened in our life. There were no secrets between us. Unfortunately I was married at the beginning of the third year of my education and went to San Francisco to live there with my husband. After 6 months we decided to go back to Iran. I wanted to go back to the university to finish my education but my husband disagreed with that. My friend finished her education and got her B.A .We continued our friendship in Iran until 5 years after the revolution in Iran. We decided to flee from Iran to go to America where all my family lived there after the beginning of the revolution. I couldn’t get in touch with her when I came to U.S.A. Last year after all these years, my brother’s friend from the International University of Iran talked to my brother and asked if Shahla Nazarian who attended the International University many years ago was his sister? My brother said yes he gave my telephone number to him. He said he has a relationship with Fatimah. She called me last year and we talked on the phone more than one hour. I was very excited to talk to her and hear her voice after all these years. We talked about our loved ones like our fathers that both died and she told me that her husband died from cancer and her son was married and is living in Canada .I am very happy to find my friend after all these years of separation . I learned this lesson, that when you are young and have a good friend and this friendship is strong you will continue during your life time no matter what happens in your life. A good relationship will continue forever if it is strong and both have the same ideas and point of view and are loyal to each other.
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Dmitriy Yefanov
2/24/2010 10:52:35 am
The best time for making new friends is when you are young. It is much easier for children to become friends with someone than for an adult. Children don't evaluate and compete with others to be friends. If another child has toys and can play, then they're friends. With adults, it's different. Older people, look at your opinions, your job status and whether you are successful in life, before deciding to be close friends with you. The friendship that me and my brother share is one since childhood. We are almost two years apart and we are inseparable, like we've always been. I've known him my whole life, and we are close. We understand and know each other almost like we know ourselves. My best friendship is with my brother and it will last as long as we're alive.
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Dzianis Rybakou
2/25/2010 02:54:43 pm
Friendship is very important but abstract aspect in our life. It is a relationship that has many dimensions. A lot of people think friendship can be between any two persons. In my opinion this is something more deep. You can not call friend somebody from your work or gym. You can call them colleague, roommate, comrade, everything but friend. I think friend is someone you can honestly trust. Yes, you are going to tell me that I can not trust anybody nowadays. May be, but I still believe in real friendship and I have a good example. I have a best friend. We have being friends ‘forever’, since we were three years old. He lived next door of the apartment where I grew up. Maxwell and I grew up together and went through many difficulties. We share many secrets and simply trust each other. Currently we live ten thousand miles from each other but we still ‘bodies’.
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Carmen G
2/26/2010 01:49:17 pm
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Tabitha K.
2/27/2010 08:54:08 am
I think any time making new friends is a good thing. It’s not late to make friends. My best friendship was when I was 12 years old. I went to 8th grade and Tanya went to 7th grade. We went to the same middle school. I met a long time ago, when she came to the US. She really liked coming over to my house after school. She didn’t want to go home. We did our homework together, also helped each other. It was a fun time. We would mess around at home. She would sleep over at my house a lot of times. Now we are not close friends any more but just friends. I learned that people are different and you don’t know what is going to be in the future, like didn’t knew that we are not going to be really close friends. When the (friend) needs something, she/he comes to you and wants to be friends again. But, that’s not how friendship works. It works, by being honest, nice, and respectful. Also with love.
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Vera Khodakivska
2/27/2010 09:12:23 am
Every people want to have friends. Also everyone should be friendly. What time is good to have friends? In my opinion every age is good to have friends. If you wish to have friends you should be friendly
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nadia k
2/27/2010 11:35:30 am
I think you can make friends at any age. I have many friends, and one of the best friends is Lilia, and she lives in Ukraine. I met her when I went to college, and I was seventeen years old there. It was the best time to make friends because I was young and I had a lot of energy with no family. I was free and independent and I had a lot of free time. We went to school together and we had many special moments. I am still friends with her and I always call her. It is nice to have a friend and keep friendship for a long time. We have one saying in our country that an old friend is better than three new friends. It is really so, because you remember when you were young and spent time and had a lot of fun. When you still keep this friendship it is very nice, and very precious. I have experienced many moments with her, and it is still in my memory. I remember her when she was young yet, and now she has her children older than when we were with her there at college. It is great to have a friend, because it stays with you on all life and forever!
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Liliya Rudenko
2/27/2010 12:36:17 pm
Friends Forever
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Vladimir khodakivsky
2/27/2010 02:38:18 pm
Every person has friends. Some people are friends for a long time, some a couple years or months. But, in my opinion the best friends have friendship all life. What time is good to have friends? It is a good question. I thought about it, and I think the best time for making new friends good is all age. If you have friend to the childhood this friendship is very long and true.
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Nhien Nguyen
2/27/2010 04:39:46 pm
One of the natural desires of the human heart is friendship. Without friends, you are going to sad .When you fall, no one will be there to help you up, so take care not to fall. For example, I had a best friend, was girl, who lived so near my house in my country. She was very nice. She was a good friend so she protected me form some guys who want to bully me. We were always together. Sometimes, I was scolded by my mom, I came to her home to share my sadness. Something happened one day that was a terrible day. My best friend died by an accident vehicle. I cried very much. I always remember her. I do not have any good friend except her. I think the best time to make friend is the first time you see someone.
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Biniam H
2/28/2010 07:28:50 am
The best time to make new friend, I think is when you are young. However it is not always the matter of time it all depends on situations, occasions or places. People can develop friendship become of common interest and sharing of similar believe and opinion on matters. Under such circumstance the bond of friendship develops connection and the friend enjoy the company of each others and have good time beside the right circumstance, however, one need to be friendly to attract friends. From my experience about friendship I have two favorite friends in my hometown. I met them when I was in high school. They were my classmate and also they were playing soccer with me. We had good understanding and helped each other on every occasion. We had a wonderful time together. Our friendship little by little became strong we became very close friends, just like brothers. Even though I moved to America I regularly communicate with them, our friendship is still strong. Therefore, good friends are very important part of life specially friendship at young age.
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Anatoliy A
2/28/2010 09:55:17 am
The best time for making new friends is when you are young like in first grade. I had a friend when I still lived in the village he was my neighbor and also my first friend like from first grade. After I moved from the village we never seen each other for a long time until I moved to America and then I saw him that was like 30 or 40 years later. The friend that I had the longest friendship with was Ivan. I met him when I was like 25 and I still contact him once in a while, but he lives in Ukraine. Whenever I have free time I call him and we talk and remember the fun years when we were still young. The life lesson that I learned from this relationship was that friendship is really important. There is an old saying that a friend is sometimes better than a brother. If you have a best friend you can talk to him/her when it is really hard for you, and the friend will probably understand you the best out of everybody even sometimes your brothers or sisters.
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Simona D
2/28/2010 10:04:26 am
I think there is always a good time to make friends. Every year we should make a new friend because sometimes you loose a friend, so just to make them even. It was a joke. Friendship is a good thing. It is good to know that you have someone that cares for you and vice versa.
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Toan N
2/28/2010 10:22:39 am
I had a best friend in Vietnam. I learn from him many lessons in life. I will never forget him with many reasons. First, when I was in Vietnam. I lived near my best friend’s house. His family was poor, but he never felt inferiority complex by that reason. We had a beautiful childhood. We usually played and help each other in school or in life. When he was in high school, he also worked in a factory. He needed money because he had to pay for school and help his family too. Second he never gave up in any situation. He studied, worked hard. Finally, he was always advised me to do right things. He wanted me became a good person. I was admiring him. Now I’m living in America. I usually talk with him on the phone. We have gun time when we talk together. Today he is a engineer and has a good family. I will never forget him because I learned from him many lessons in life.
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Nadiia N
2/28/2010 10:39:11 am
I think that there is no "best" time to making friends,you can make friends anytime.I remember when I was still young I had a lot of friends.Then I met the best friend ever,it was my husband.When we got married he would always go to work and I would stay at home with the kids.I felt lonely because my husband would leave to work early in the morning and come home late at night.I decided I had to make my loneliness go away,so I made a friend named Oksana.We lived together on the same street.Our children went to the same school.Oksana was always very helpful.If I couldn't pick up my children from school then she would pick them up for me.When I went to the supermarket in town,she would take care of my children.She fed them and read them interesting stories that made them go to sleep.When ever my washing machine broke down,my friend took my dirty clothes,and put them in her washing machine.She cooked very well and always invited me to try the meals.
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Diana M.
2/28/2010 11:00:16 am
People can make friends all their life, but the best time I think is in childhood and adolescence. At this period of life, people have a lot of free time and less worry about tomorrow. Adults have more problems and family to care about, but young teenager is more interested in making friends and spending time with fun.
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Orkideh z.
2/28/2010 11:25:12 am
The Best Time for Making Friend
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Leslie M.
2/28/2010 12:04:17 pm
Journal #5
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Raymundo L
2/28/2010 12:27:12 pm
I think that there is no best time for making a new friendship. We meet people everyday, but we don't make a friendship with all the people we meet. The frienship is something really special. Friendship does not happen from one day to another one. We have to work to make the friendship happen. We have to earn the friendship. I think friendship its like a plant. You have to plant the seed, watering and take care of it, so the plant wont died. We have to take care the friendship, because one mistake can break it apart. My best friendship was with my friend Analy. It took time to become a friendship. We still friens. In a friendship, a friend is somebody that is going to be there for you no matter what time it is. A friend always is going to listen to you and give you a good advise.
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Halyna S.
2/28/2010 12:41:30 pm
How many kinds of friends do you think there are in our lives? One time I read that research says that there are around twenty kinds of friends. I was surprised because I never knew that. Friendship is always important in our lives but for me, it is more important when I know that my friend is present in my life and I can feel it. For example, my closest friend Lida lives in Sacramento. In my native country she lived near my house and was my neighbor. We are still friends today. She is an interesting person. She likes reading and knows a lot of interesting things and stories. Lida is a very kind, sympathetic, and friendly person. She is a very good cook and baker, so she taught me how to bake bread. My bread is always delicious and I thank her for that. Lida often calls me and I like to have conversations with her. Sometimes we go shopping together because she is a good companion in this business. If she gives something to me, she never expects anything in return. I always can trust my closest friend. In my opinion, we cannot choose the best time for making new friends because life gifts our friends to us. We have to keep this moment and remember that friendship has a big value.
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Viktor S.
2/28/2010 01:14:04 pm
We can have a lot of friends, but a few of them are our closest friends. Why are some of them good and some of them the best? I don’t want to write about all my friends, so I’m writing about my closest friend Rostyk. He has lived in Sacramento for 7 years. He is married. He seems kind and interesting, and he is talkative and gentle. We like to sit and drink coffee and talk about life or about new books we read or the news. Sometime we plan trips because we like traveling. He knows a lot of interesting places in California, Nevada, Oregon, and other countries. Very often we go camping or to the lake together; sometimes we go hiking or fishing. Rostyk is a good fisherman and I try to be a good fisherman too. When my family and I arrived to the USA, Rostyk gave us important advices about life in America. I always value his advice because good advice can’t be bought by money. I’m happy that I met Rostyk because it’s wonderful to have a closest friend. I think that we cannot plan when we will make new friendship. Do you know someone who has in his or her schedule time for making a new friendship? It makes one laugh. From my relationship I learned a very important life lesson that devoted friend can be better than a brother.
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Marina F
2/28/2010 01:47:12 pm
I think the best time to make new friends is anytime.Friendship is not just for young or for old people.I met my best friend on first day of school when I went to second grade.She was new in our school and didn't know everything.I was the first one who she asked for help.That day we became best friends ,and our friendship lasts for many years.I came to U.S. and she still lives in my country,but we keep in touch by email.She is the one I know I can trust.From this relationship I learned that a best friend will never betray you and will not leave you alone when you have a hard time.
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venus k.
2/28/2010 02:03:21 pm
What is the best time for making new friends? My answer would be anytime if you think it is appropriate time, place and the way you are greeting that person. Whenever you think it is the right time and the right place. Just do it. I don’t see any wrong if you want to say hi to someone who you see at the gym. Also, I don’t see any problem if you are trying to talk to someone while you are waiting for your car to be wash at the car wash. Even though, I don’t think anyone will reproach you if you want to make friend while you are working. In this case, I had met my American special friends when I was working. They are sweet couple who have good heart and open mind. I still remember that night so well. It was a dinner time. I was working in the restaurant and one lady called the restaurant to order some food for togo. She asked me about the menu, and she wanted to know what the best dish on the menu was. I told her my favorite dish and she ordered it. Just before she hung up the phone she asked my name. When she came to pick up her order, she came in with her husband as well. First I met them I knew I could be friend with them right away. We had a good conversation that night. It wasn’t long after that. My special friend came to my work place again. This time we had changed our phone numbers. When the time arrow us to have some free time off from work or house work, we always call each other. Personally, my relationship with this couple is a great relationship, but it is incredibility feeling the way we became friend.
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Liliya Sira
2/28/2010 02:03:59 pm
Money might make you wealthy, but friends make you rich. In my opinion, you don’t make friends, you have to earn them. Having someone who understands you is a great blessing. Happiness and misfortune I may share only with my best friend. A true friend is the one who knows more about you than yourself. They still love you despite your shortcomings. I have many friends, which remained in my native country, but my best friend is my husband. I respect him for his fairness, strong will, intellect and modesty. He never lets people down. Our friendship helps me feel strong and sure of myself. I think, that real friend is one who cares about you, one who will be there when you cry, when things are good and also when things are bad. A true friend is someone you can trust with everything so you never walk alone.
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Tatyana S
2/28/2010 02:19:46 pm
Im my opinion, I think any time is a good time to make freinds. Most important is that the person is pure and not cunning. A good hearted person will make his and others life good. That is the kind of freindship I had when i was i child we very social with each other because we wanted to not because we had to. We are no longer friends because we lost contact a long time ago. Thanks to past relationships I have found that it is good to try to stay in touch and to try to stay pure with freinds.
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Monica Cardella
2/28/2010 02:41:57 pm
Any time is a good time to make new friends, friendship for me is something very important, we can’t leave without them. I have many friends but the very good and true ones I have they are very important in my life for many reason. My best, best friend we grow up together and is been fun, we can talk about anything or ever thing and always we agree the same, she leaves in Mexico, we email every day or we are in the phone. My other good friend we meet 22 years ago, our kids went together in school and from there grow up a wonderful friend ship, we always are there for each other, we talk in the phone once a week, unfortunately now we leave in different cities but she comes to visit me or I go to visit her. My other good friend she leaves here, we meet 8 years ago and we have a wonderful friendship, we do a lot of things together, we go shopping, eat, movies, and also we share the same hobby’s , we can talk anything and we help each other all the time, and also love that we laugh all the time. With other friends we go to dinner or they come to my house for dinner and we spend a wonderful evening. What life has taught me is that we can be different in many ways, but we are reaching for the same thing. Friend ship is something very special and important for our lives.
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vlad Golovko
2/28/2010 03:07:59 pm
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
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Yana P
2/28/2010 03:46:03 pm
Friendship helps people in life. True friends stay together in the worst situations when everybody else leaves.
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Svitlana V.
2/28/2010 03:50:01 pm
I think that best time to make new friends is when you need them. You can know who are real friends for you when you are in the trouble. When i came to the USA i found a new friend. He always helps our family whenever i call him. When my family moved to America, we didn't have any relatives or friends. He was our neighboor and he is from Salvador, but even though he doesn't speak English really good he always undersatand us. He said that i can call him my uncle. First time when we met each other was when i just bought a car and i hit a white column on the parking place and he saw it and gave me liquid to paint white color on my car. Another time when i had an accident he was driving me to my job and was helping us to find a new car. He was living alone and when he had a birthday we invited him to our house to celebrate with us. His wife left him with children. However, i think because he helped us, God helped him and his wife and children with grandchildren came back to him. And right now he is moving to the duplex with his family because one-bedroom aprtment is too small for his family.
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Alex Moskalenko
3/1/2010 06:55:47 am
Alex Moskalenko
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Paraskoviya Moskalenko
3/1/2010 07:57:05 am
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Irina T.
3/2/2010 08:00:13 am
Best friends
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Svetlana M
3/2/2010 12:03:48 pm
In my opinion there is no better time to make friends. I don't think that age or time of the year meters. However, it is important to meet them before you really need someone, who can help you. It is easier to make friends when you are young, because young people are going to many different places, meet new people and have more interests in their lives. I had many friends in Ukraine and few of them were very close to me, but I was a child. Right now I have three best friends Andrey and Yuriy and my sister Lyuda. These guys are my real and best friends. I know that I can ask them for help, at any time I need it. I can tell them everything I have inside. We have been together since I came to the US. They are always there for me.
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Natalya Cherepnya
3/6/2010 10:31:15 am
The best time to make friend is when you're child.I have a lot of friend. Most of them are my former scholmake.Friendship is an important part of life,but many of us find it difficult to find and keep friends.My best friend Larisa live in Sacramento .we have been know each other when I iraved to USA it was 2003.She is very kind person. We are so close ,I feel comfortable when I visit your her family and we spend time together.
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Ghassan fares
3/8/2010 04:45:50 am
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Farhad T
3/8/2010 05:26:37 am
Before I came to the USA, I had this picture in my mind that USA is the best country in the world, a person is free to do whatever he wants to do and make money as much as he wants to make. Well most of the immigrants before leaving their native country think that living in the USA is a big chance for them to change their life and become wealthy so they can live freely and do what ever they want to do. In general, these thoughts come from media and Hollywood. We think that the USA is the best country in the world. To be honest with you, in this country like the others around the globe, everybody deals with lots of problems. Sometimes the problems which government and other people deal with is worse than any anywhere else. As a mater of fact, living anywhere around the world has advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, if you have money and you are wealthy USA is the best country to live, but if you have no money and try to come to move and live in this country as you used to think, don't waste your time and stay in your native country. USA is the land of opportunity for those who want to improve their life and become international put the best effort in their life to make a big difference. Of course don't forget to follow the laws and rules. Don't brake them and live in a safe environment. On the other hand, click it or ticket. :)
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Elva H
3/11/2010 09:18:58 am
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Paul Yefanov
3/18/2010 09:51:33 am
I think there is no good or bad times to make friends. It is always good to make friends. I remember I had a friend she was a true friend. Whenever I needed help she was always there to help and whenever she needed help I was always there to help too. We both been true a lot happy times and sad times. You can only chek if your friend is real or not by asking him or her for help. If the person is always ready to help no matter if it's day time or time to sleep, if it's a hot day or a rainy day. True friend will always try to come and help you out. I'm still best friends with my friend and I know we will always stay this way. I learned couple lessons from all this. I'ts alwasy batter to tell your friend the truth than all these little lies. Our frienship is still strong because all you need for that is trust, respect, love and understanding.
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Elva H.
3/25/2010 04:22:03 am
What is the best time for making new friends?
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