friendship

Friendship involves the willingness to invest time, effort, thought, and feeling.  There is no easy way out on developing friendships.  Most people want to be emotionally close with their friends.  One way of doing it is through communication.  For some people, communication is the center piece of friendship.  For most women, they talk not only the major issues in their lives, but also things that could be as little as sesames, and they want their friends to know and understand their inner selves.  Another way of getting emotionally closer with friends is sharing activities.  I enjoy doing things together with my friends, and sometimes even doing things for them.  We all want to be accepted by our friends even our flaws.  I think one of the purposes to having friends is to make one another a better person.  I think trust and support are the 2 most important elements of friendship because if you are able to trust you friends that would mean that you had probably developed a successful friendship.  Support is important because this is what friends are for.

opinions about the class

I really like this class because I actually learned from it, and I do like the self-learning experience.  Another reason that I like about the class is that it is an online class.  It feels great when I don’t have to go to school but still be able to learn and earn credits.  I like the part of peers posting and commenting on each other’s walls.  We not only learn from the book, but we also learned on the experiences of others.  The least favorite thing that I like about the class is also the blogging.  Throughout the course, we had the 12 hour restriction between each post.  I struggled with that because it was easily to be forgotten.  I think a way to improve this class to make the discussions be due on Sunday nights instead of Saturday nights because I would then have time to get together with my friends.

what I learned from the class

Over the course of the semester, I’ve learned a lot.  I learned that conflicts are natural in relationships.  No matter what kind of relationship you are talking about, conflict is definitely a part of it.  I also learned that the way of communication between male and female is different.  Men tend to talk less emotionally than women do.  I think this is probably why most girls are more talkative than guys.  The most important thing that I learned is the nature of friendship.  I learned how friendship could be improved and how to resolve the conflicts within.  I used to expect my friends to be there for me when I need them because I am always there for them when they needed me.  I then realized that I cannot put my standards on them because everyone thinks differently.  When my friends were not there for me when I needed, I was really sad, but we actually got closer after I’d talked to them about how I felt about it.  I really think that communication is the key to friendship.