The Fringe Benefits Of Failure Analysis
Friendships are valuable because they are hard to find. For me, a friend is someone who I can go to when all problems of the world are facing me. A friend is someone who is with me during good and bad times. A friend is someone who does not compete with you. Someone who I can share feelings and thoughts with. When reading “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” by J.K Rowling. A quote from the speech that stood out to me was “The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn to in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters.” It made me realize that
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I was determined to know why Alexander had broken up with me. By talking to Alexander I discovered that Jenny was behind all of this. I was devastated. Not only had I just lost my boyfriend, but I had also lost my best friend. The one person I felt I could trust more than anyone else. My first year of middle school was dreadful. I was miserable, school was terrible, and I couldn’t wait for the school year to end. I had nobody to talk to or help me get through this hard time. Everybody thought I was the bad person from of all the rumors Jenny had spread about me. I couldn’t believe that people were actually feeling sorry for Jenny. There was so much drama involved with the whole thing; people were sick and tired of hearing about our argument. Honestly, I was too. In eighth grade, Jenny was attempting to be my friend again. I was confused by all of this. I had never experienced anything like it before, and it was hard for me to understand. I found that things were never going to be the same between us. I’ve tried to forgive her, but things were different. I felt she had betrayed me, and she justified her behavior by thinking that I had betrayed her by going out with Alexander in the first place. From what had started out as a friendship ended due to
I was determined to know why Alexander had broken up with me. By talking to Alexander I discovered that Jenny was behind all of this. I was devastated. Not only had I just lost my boyfriend, but I had also lost my best friend. The one person I felt I could trust more than anyone else. My first year of middle school was dreadful. I was miserable, school was terrible, and I couldn’t wait for the school year to end. I had nobody to talk to or help me get through this hard time. Everybody thought I was the bad person from of all the rumors Jenny had spread about me. I couldn’t believe that people were actually feeling sorry for Jenny. There was so much drama involved with the whole thing; people were sick and tired of hearing about our argument. Honestly, I was too. In eighth grade, Jenny was attempting to be my friend again. I was confused by all of this. I had never experienced anything like it before, and it was hard for me to understand. I found that things were never going to be the same between us. I’ve tried to forgive her, but things were different. I felt she had betrayed me, and she justified her behavior by thinking that I had betrayed her by going out with Alexander in the first place. From what had started out as a friendship ended due to