Friend In Need

When it comes to helping a friend thinking about it I was trying to think about a crazy story that was going to be totally awesome and I was actually going to enjoy writing but… Instead I can not think of one, so. It turns out that learning new math can be extremely tough to do especially when you do not understand what exactly is going on. That being said in my Sophomore math class, Geometry, I had three other friends in there that had been really good friends of mine. I had always heard that geometry was terrible to learn and it was time to find out. About a little over halfway through the year we had been thriving and then we got to the extremely difficult things and it turned out that I understood them and my friends had somewhat understood. Ultimately I had been the guy that had to answer to their questions because I understood the material the best out of the four of us. Two of my friends had actually tried really hard to complete the material and understand it, which worked because we had discussions about the material. But my other friend had a really tough time concentrating so he instead ended up falling three weeks behind and not being able to make the work up because of the policies we had at the school at the time sought guidance from the guidance counselors. They told him that he should not even try to pass and that he should focus on the other classes, so he did. The next year he ended up doing credit recovery for that class and gained the credit. But also the next year and this year we ended up back in the same math classes which was awesome because we are friends. He came to me early in the school year which I know was tough for him because he struggled when asking for help and said “Hey can you help me this year so I do not repeat last years math” so I replied with “Yes, how about I sit next to you so it is easier to ask questions when you do not get things” to which he nodded his head. We ended up getting great grades that year even having a little competition as to who could get the higher grade in the class, which was cool. Those two years are the years that I saw him really engage into his high school career, he is engaged in high school even more this year. After that year had passed I was proud because that class was the most distracting because we had so many senior friends in that class. This also caused our friendship to become better than it was and he ended up in a sticky situation one evening that due to our friendship I was able to help him through because the situation he was put in is not exactly one that no teenage kid should be in. That was how I helped a friend, now I do not know if he got anything else out of it but I know that it enabled me to be able to learn how to help people humbly if that makes sense like I am able to help people without belittling them now.

That was also the story of how my friend had helped me but I feel like he has helped me in so many more ways regarding how I act with people and with my temper. That is not how my friend helped me though. Since it is extremely difficult for me to pick and choose one specific thing that my friend has helped me I simply can not pick one. So instead I will write about how my friend over the past 3 years has helped me become a better person because that is how he helped me. My friend has never been shy to tell me when I am being a little insensitive (Other words are what I would use but this is a school assignment after all) which I always was so stubborn to just stop and be like you know what you are right I am being insensitive. This over the past 3 years has helped me realize when I am doing that and when people call me on it. I am way better at changing my attitude and making it better. My friend has ALWAYS been there when I need to rant or when I feel bad for something or about something, he has open ears and gives me positive feedback. I feel that due to the way that I was raised and the expectations that always arose from my parents I had never really failed them so I feel that caused me to overthink. This is normally when I tend to rant a lot because when I overthink things I freak out and that is when I rant to my friend. Luckily my friend helps minimize my points to the point where I do not worry about them nearly as much as I had been thinking about them. Through the past three years my friend has taught me to be a better person which I believe is huge as it has made my thinking process grow up. The talks that we have had at Two or Three A.M. in the morning that have gotten really deep at times have really stuck with me and I think about them sometimes and my reaction is like, “wow I can not believe that I thought like that in that scenario, what was I thinking and what was I doing” these are truly not only ways my friend has helped me over high school but it is also the reason why I will miss high school. I really owe it to my friend for making high school a truly memorable four years because without him I don’t know who I would have shared rants to and had competitions with if it came to grades or if it came to video games like Call Of Duty and NBA 2k. That being said to my friend you know who you are, thank you.

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