Friday, November 2, 2012
Week 11 discussion - Question 1
It was difficult for me to find something on the forum page that related to some extent to the problems that arise in friendships in this chapter. With that said, I do believe that a lot of friendships, especially the ones that are from high school that do continue onto college face challenges. The external pressure, personal changes, play a huge role in these problems because as friends move on with their lives, they become completely different people. Sometimes, it's easy to deal with the change, but for some people it is not. Thus, a problem can arise or a friendship could end. For example, one of my best friends from high school decided to also attend SJSU with me but became friends with new people as time went by. It was fine with me at first, but after a while, his new group of friends influenced his new interests and his personality just no longer clicked with mine. His personal changes definitely brought out plenty of problems between us and we both tried to fix them to save the friendship, but in the end we just both gave up and respected the fact that we both changed. There were no hard feelings, but it was definitely a sad moment in my life.
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Hey Hermoine! I am sorry that you could not save your friendship but this is the fact that people change in different phases of their lives because of various reasons like company, situation, place etc. Things that we like before do not seem to interest us any more, new people seem more interesting than old ones. Unless there is a commitment in a relationship it is difficult to maintain the same spirit. But you cannot deny chances of the same friend coming back to you after some time because often times we realize the importance of our valuable possessions like friends later.
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