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Friendship is considered one of the important relationships that people can have. Friendship relationship is significant in one’s life. A good friendship can benefit you.   In other hand, a bad friendship can ruin one’s life.   During high school days, many teenagers’ lives revolve around who they hang out with. If one teenager hangs out with people who do drugs and drinks, then that person’s life won’t benefit as much but get influenced and adapt the new environment. Therefore later in life, the person would get into drugs and drinks frequently due to the people he hung out with during his high school life. In contrary, a person who hangs out with a decent and smart people, such as a valedictorian, can result studying and becoming smart like his valedictorian friend.   He would then get influenced by his friend from studying and build up this constructive friendship with him. Constructive friendship is more likely to be successful in studying rather than having a negative friendship from peer pressure, mom’s nagging, and love relationship.
Competitive relationship can cause internal pressure in people to study hard to gain their self-esteem. Many people, such as I, have smart friends surrounding me. For example, I have a friend named Sarah Kim. Last year, we had the same teacher for biology but in different periods. Sarah and I would challenge ourselves and compete each other to see who receives the higher grade for chapter tests. Two days before the test days I would start studying madly for biology. Before each test, we would tell each other how much time we spend on studying for the test. Usually our answers would be, “little bit.” Then the day when we got our results back, we would compare our test grades right away. If I scored higher on the test, I definitely got happy, and my self-esteem would go up. For Sarah, she probably would have felt the same way. Through this personal experience, I found out that smart friends are able to pressure you to study more.... [continues]

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