Narrative Essay On Becoming A Close Friend

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During my sophomore year of high school I found myself very confused about who I was and what direction I should head toward. There were so many options that I could have chose but I did not have a clue of who I was so it was hard to go in a certain direction if I did not know who I was first. Then at the start of the school year, in my Geometry class I found myself sitting to now my best friend, Brendan and we were first strangers but over the course of the semester we grew very close. We saw that we both had the same exact interests and that we shared many common beliefs which led to us creating a strong bond. The more I learned about him, I found myself also learning about myself at the same time which allowed me to gain an understanding of who I was. Brendan was in the same situation as myself of trying to find out who we were and we gained more confidence in ourselves, when we learned more about each other. This led to us being over confident in our …show more content…

Both Brendan and I did not know who we were, but by getting to know each other and comparing ourselves with each other, we began to gain an understanding of who we were. The reason for our behaviors of becoming close friends is because we come to associate with people who are like us and share similar views with us. The more we compared ourselves to each other, the more we realized on closely related we were which led to us creating a bond between each other and the ability for us to figure out who we were. The consequences of us learning more about ourselves and becoming more connected as friends led to us to think higher of ourselves than what were really were which is the better than average effect. This led us to joining the wrong group of students as friends in order to solve for our problem of the uncertainty identity

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