Friends

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back toyou
when you have forgotten the words. Good morning to the panel of honourable
judges, teachers and friends. On this fine morning, I would like to talkabout
Friends.On this planet, who cant live without friends? Everyone. Bart Simpson
wouldhave died of boredom with his sister, Lisa. That would not happen because
hehas Milhouse of The Simpsons to tag along with him. We need our peers to liveour
lives, to joke around, and to help us with our mischievous plots. Who woulddare to
tell an adult about our plans?Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel
through whom greatemotional and spiritual blessings flow. Friends will cheer us up
when we are fullof depression. With eyes full of sorrow, we are bound to get
attention themoment our friends notice. We usually just want them to hang around
with us, tohave a good time, to act silly and just be ourselves.Remember the guy
you had a crush on? That oh so hot Edward Cullen inTwilight? With his delicious
sultry blue eyes and charming British accent thatwould make your heart melt the
instant he talks. During the days our favouriteHollywood artistes are famous, we
tend to get carried away to Day Dream Land.Students our age are most probably to
tell our buddies on how awesome theyare. Im sure none of you would go screaming
to your mum and say Mum!Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen is soooo hot! Im
going to read the third booklater. She would have said, Stop reading all those
vampire stories and get backto studying. Will your friends react the same way as
your mum? Of course not.They would sit down with you and say, Totally. I wish Im
Kristen Stewart. Iwould get to act and hang out with him off set. Acting as Bella
would be so cool.This settles it. Our spirits would have been brought down if we
didnt have anyfriends.As well as our fantasy world, our buddies are on the job as
our Fashion Police.We would be fined if we wear bell-bottoms with a T-shirt, which
your mum toldyou to, to our graduation ceremony. With our friends, we could
choose theappealing dress with stiletto boots which would look awesome in front of
acrowd. You can save a major fashion disaster.Friends are like peanut butter and
jelly. They always stick together. Who elseother than your best friend would help
you walk to the infirmary when you brokea foot while playing basketball? We always
stick together anywhere we go. Oneof us never follows. We walk side by side. We
treat ourselves as equals. Alwaysbe humble and never brag on things that you own.
One would never treat theother like leaves on the ground. Good friends are precious
and rare likediamonds. Very hard to find. We should never cast our friends aside.

Friends are like angels without wings. Some may be devils in disguise. Exactlylike
the song Fly on The Wall by Miley Cyrus. The song tells about a personwhom you
trusted and thought he was nice. Actually, he was betraying the onehe so called

cared. We should never betray our friends secrets to the world of rumour-hungry
people. As well as secrets, we shouldnt cancel our get-togetherat the last
minute.Theres only a few minutes left until an exam starts. You realised that
youhavent memorised the important facts yet. Who else other than your
closestbuddy will sit next to you and repeat the words over and over again
andhopefully remain in your brain for the next 60 minutes.A lot of people go
through life with only a few friends. It seems that some haveless than that. They
have no one they can call in good times or bad. There is noone with whom to
bounce ideas around, or to talk about deep and troublingsubjects. They have no one
to call in times of need or difficulty. They arestanding alone, being an outcast.When
we are bored, we could SMS our friends with our fingers at the speed of lightning. Or
even go to their house to catch up with the latest gossip. For mosttech-savvy
people, they prefer going to chat rooms on the internet and interactwith people of
different experiences. Besides chatting, we are able to joinnetworking sites such as
Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. On these sites, weare able to search for long-lost
friends as well as new people. These ways wontmake us lonely as we could interact
with our friends in a different way.As life goes on, we meet different people each
time. Some turned out to be ourbuddies. Friends come and go. We lose some and
gain a lot more. Some friendsstay right by your side while others go the opposite
way. There are times whenone of your friends becoming the matchmaker of your
future life, and succeeds.Good or bad friends come and go. But theres one thing for
sure, we cant livewithout them.
Here is a poem on friends:
-A friend is someone we turn to
When our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift,
A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the whole world we live in
A better and happier place.
With that, I thank you.