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Teresa Buffington
Basic English
Professor Williams
My Best Friend
After much thought on all the people I have and had in it, it was a no-brainer for me that
My little brother changed my life? ln itsetf seems like a stretch on siblings getting along
let alone*eU.eseu€hf'be each other,s best friend. Because how could a over 6 foot tall,
brown-haired, red-bearded young man who spent msst of his time playing video games and
was intd(Magic: The Gatheringfbnd involving himself in renaissance reenactments who looked
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ft"}:KC. Iike Shaggy from Scooby Doo and a bookworm who spent most of her time in her room or doing
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yard work ever become best friends? I guess it does happen in life t suppose.
ln the end, though it didn't matter to me that he was my little brother and alt,
considering what one would consider a best friend he was mine.-l was able to learn a couple of
gogd lessons that I was able to carry with me to the presenb Such as that it's not the
end of the
world and not all is lost with a friend if there's a disagreement. Also, that it really isn,t a bad
thing to ask for help'and it doesn't make you any lease for doing so. plus, when it comes down
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to it allyou need is one good friend. l€iS
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While pondering on these lessons that I have learned,mV thought's stdrted taking me
back to being at my grandmother's house and hearing the phone ring because my mom was
wanting to know if we had torn the house down or killed each other. With my grandmother
walking down the hallway from her room or sewing room and checking in our rooms or outside
to see if everything was okay. She would then get back on the phone and let her know the
The reasons for her concern were that our disagreements weren't the usual minor
bickering or screaming at each other; even though we did do our fair share of that when we
were little. lt was the punching, head-buttinSlhitting each other with whatever was at hand.
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Even kneeing each other and things of that nature like we were 3-4 foot tall little MMA fighters.
The nature of those fights would trigger her concern due to her not being there to referee in
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the evenfb fight Er+le oJut. Even with those types of things happening when we did disagree,
we didn't like the fact if anyone else would mess with the other one and would stick up for each
other if it happened.
When we weren't disagreeing with one another about something, we were getting
along with one another like nothing happened and we were really good friends all along.
Playing games, helping each other out with somethingr or every once in a while playing a video
game. lt was usually one-sided on who wanted to play the video game at the time, so it didn't
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I realized that even when there are disagreements, eventeally bad ones, it didn't mean
that your friendship with someone is over. For we didn't let our disagreements bother us after
they were over. We would just let them go and went on with our lives because we knew that
whatever it wastwasn't€ffything serious enough to ruin a friendship over. We grew up with that
kind of continuing support for each other. I was able to use what I have learned about
friendships throughout my life to learn that just because you disagree with a friend doesn't
mean your friendship has to be over beear*se sf-it- That your friendship can grow stronger
used to. We pretty much would get mad at each other and talk whatever it was out. It was a
time when we mostly were off doing our own thing yvhich usually consisted of us being in our
rooms working on something. When we would get stuck at a point, it was usually a problem we
A perfect example from that time is when we each got a computer of our own. My
grandma had a studio apartment set up out of the front part of the old barn my grandpa, and
she had made. Since we were living out at her house at the time, we decided to set up our
computers in the apartment. He sat up his in the bedroom of it, and I set mine up in the living
room area. We'll be playing on our games at the same time, or he would be playing his games,
and I would be working on something else. He would get stuck on a game where you had to
solve a puzzle of some kind, he would try, try, and try to figure it out and if he couldn't he
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would get me. I would solve the puzzle and get him past that spot and vice versa. lf I was in a
game where lhad to getthetiming just rightto get past a spot and lcouldn't get past it lwould
get him. We didn't think anything of it and nothing less of the other for doing so. ln it's little
way, it showed me that asking for help isn'tafiything badlnot everyone is good at everything.
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We all have our gifts and stuff we are good at aad on the other hand we all have some things
we aren't good at as well. lt doesn't make us any less of a person to ask for help when we are
dealing with something that we are having a problem with,and by asking for help could get us
There is a time for most kids when they can get discouraged about not having very many
friends and for most that is when they get into high school. lt was during this time I went
through some of the ,r** ffi''ffi. ,o living at rny grandma's,there weren't very many of my
friends that wanted to go out there to visit. The distance, in turn, made it difficult to make it to
them to visit. At school, we were able to see each other, but I didn't have the same classes with
any of them. The circumstances made it difficult to hang out with any of them. Calling was nice,
but we weren't able to do that so much. So like it usually would do, it started to get at oneself.
I usually would find my little brother to hang out with. Which even though I wasn't able
to talk to or hang out with all my other friends I had it wasn't too bad. Because if t needed
someone to talk tqhe was the one person I was able to go to for advice. I needed to talk to
someone to throw an idea around he would be there to give me the outside opinion and any
suggestions needed in regards to it. After a while, I started to realize that you don't need a lot
of friends. All you need to have is one good friend that you can talk to about whatever it is and
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to give you any suggestions when you're in need of it and the insight on whatever it is. You got
little brother changed my life for the better. By showing me through the disagreements I was
able to learn that when you have a disagreement in friendship that it doesn't mean that your
friendship is over. By asking for each othe/s help, I was able to learn that just because you ask
for help that it doesn't make you less of a person. When he was there when I needed to talk to
someone and to get an opini'on or two when the occasion called for it, that all you really need is
one good friend and it will be okay. I was able to take those life lessons with me and they have
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helped me thrpugh my life. For that, I will always be grateful*e him. l'm glad to have the honor
to have someone like him that lwas able to grow up and cal! my best friend.