Rebecca at EBAFF, Bronx, NY

What is a good friend?

What is a good friend? That’s a good question! People have different opinions on this question. I think that a good friend is someone who’s always there when you need them. A good friend is someone that treats you with respect. A good friends is someone that you can share your secrets with. A good friend is someone that you can have a good time with. That’s what I think a good friend.

A good friend is always there for you.  A good friend is something that can be hard to find. People find friends, but then they start to fight. I have friends that I will fight with, but then we will become friends again. Our friendship will become stronger though. Sometimes when you find a friend, you have to realize that if they are a true friend. Sometimes there are people that think that people that treat them with no respect are there friend. But a friendship like that will not work, even when your friends with someone that you have nothing in common with.
Friendship can be a hard thing because you don’t really know if you have a good friend, until after high school. After high school many friends would break apart. Some people want to go to college, while their friends stay back. Then they nev er see each other again. I remember someone that had a best friend. They finished high school and they both wanted to go to college. The problem was that they wanted to go to different colleges and the college were far away from each other. So they were so busy, that that they never got a chance to talk or even see each other. It can be hard trying to find a  good friend and even keeping a good friend. Then there’s sometimes when people think that th ey are good friends, but then their true colors come in. It can be hard when you fight with your best friend. All you want to do is talk to your best friend, but you can’t.

I remember fighting with my best friend. It was hard, but I did no want to talk to her because I hated the fact that she was treating me like trash. She would just black me out so that she could look at the boys. I was so mad and I had no one to talk to. Then she would hang out with her friends that just care about boys. They would be flirting with any guy and they didn’t care. I remember when one of the girls she calls her friend made her cry and threw a book at her head. I was there for her like a good friend, but now she still hangs with them. Even though I helped her, she just treats me like trash. Then she wants me to forgive her, probably because she wants someone to treat like trash. She just wants me to be her friends when she feels bad, but after that she kicks me around. I feel bad for my other friend because he put himself in the middle of the fight. Now he wants me to forgive and talk to her, but the thing he does not understand is that I am a human and I don’t deserve to be treated like that. Then again no one deserve to be treated like trash, but the person that treats other people like trash. She hung out with the girl that made her cry so much, that she became her. Now I’m her and she’s the girl that made me cry.

Title:BEST FRIENDS – a safer pathway to Peace
Photographer:Carf
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