My ninth grade year I learned that
everybody is not my friend and every friend is not a good friend. All of my
life I have tried to be a good, confidence giving, loyal friend and I hoped that
I would get the same in return. I've learned that is not the case with
everyone. I came to Parkway West without having any friends or knowing anyone
because I am not from West Philadelphia and I never lived here to know anyone. I thought I could find that one person who I would stick with throughout
all of my high school years. The fist two weeks of school I tried to bond with
everybody and learn the different personalities to see if I could find any
potential (school) best friends.
I started to become really good
friends with this one girl we became very close very fast. We shared secrets,
talked on the phone and I even stayed an entire weekend at her house. In the beginning of our
friendship we didn't have the same since of humor but we got along well and we
had a lot of other things in common. As the school year went on I started to notice
some changes in her and started to feel like the more she changed the more I changed
and it wasn’t for the better. She started to act different towards me in front of other
people and she became very judgmental and argumentative, which was something
that made me very uncomfortable because I don't like to argue with my friends. I cannot stand a person who likes to talk about other people to make themselves look better and that is exactly what she always did. Every time I would confront her about it she would say "Oh I am so sorry it won't happen again" or "Oh Imani I really do care about you and your a great friend". Because we were such good friends in
the beginning of the year she knew that I am a happy positive person and she
knew that I had no desire to argue with her. She used it against me and took
advantage of me, and it showed when other people came around.
