My Teenage Years: Unforgettable Time of My Best Friendships

Teenage life is a critical years for teenagers. As teenage get older, usually they become less dependent on parents and more on their friends. In this reflective essay on my teenage years I want to emphasize what role do friend play in my life. I believe that it is not only my case, but that each teenager can say that during teen years friends become more important than family. 

Making Friend During My Teenage Years 

Friends play a big role in a teen’s daily. The friendship teens make in high school have a strong impact on our way of thinking. My life as a teenager is such wonderful even there’s so many ups and down. Even though I’m such an introvert and shy person, but I’m proud of being myself. Though sometimes, I experienced doubt and some teenagers will say that my life is a boring one, I’m very much sure that I’m in the right track for my parents guide me always. For as long as I can remember, in my teenage years, I was more on quiet side but I’m still enjoying myself do anything that I love. Being introvert (shyness) back then, I have these certain characteristics like I am socially awkward. Like many introverts, I’m generally quiet in a social setting. In terms of making friends, I'm not very good at it because I’m naturally shy to be around people that I am not familiar with. I feel so awkward and nervous to approach people first. Deep down I want to make new friends and be more friendly but I don't know how to show it. I don’t know how to make a move at the same time I’m afraid to be rejected. Luckily, I was never been bullied when I was in school because I was nice with everyone and I would avoid conflict with others.

As far as I remember, I’ve never been to the target of anybody. Besides, I’m good with all my classmates during my teen years even though I’m only close and talk much with my four best friends and two of them are in the same class with me during secondary 4 and 5. I had four close friends in my teen years and that’s pretty much all I needed. I’d be friends with two of them (Najiha and syafiqah) since primary school and we’re became best friend when we were in secondary school. I’d be friends with another two (huda and Anis) and turns out to be my best friends when I was in secondary 4 and 5 because we’re in the same class and we became very close day by day. I consider them as my best friends because they stuck with me until now. Most of the time, I’m just with them because I feel comfortable. They have been there for me through thick and thin throughout my teens years until now we already become adult.

Final Thoughts

Huda and Najiha are extrovert but they accepted the way I am and not pushed me to be outgoing person. Honestly, it’s quite challenging to have an extrovert best friends because we have contradict character and sometimes we’re having cold war but we manage to get through it by accepting each other personality and character. We’re different in a lot of aspects but we understand each other very well. There are many more actually but for introvert people like me back then, it’s good to have a friends like both of them cause someway or other I get a chance to socialize myself and meet new people.