Best Friend
Friendship is inevitable. Regardless which direction you turn to or what situation you are in, the traces of friendship are all around you. This situation is portray nicely in the movie The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants as it discusses four best friends and the amazing summer that they spend even though they are not together because their summer is connected by a pair of jeans that amazingly enough, fits all of them perfectly, even though they are very different in size and shape. Apart from that movie, the importance of friendship in every aspect of our life was also reflected in the article Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends by Judith Viorst. In the article, Viorst categorized friends into categories according to their roles and importance in our life. Both movie and article emphasize the importance of friendship and the effects of it in our life. I personally can relate to those two sources because while growing up, I learnt to treasure friendship that I have with my best friend. In the movie, all of the characters have known each other their whole life; and, they have been seeing each other through divorce, death and all fun and pains of adolescent years. Because of their intimacy, they find comfort and tell each other secrets that even their parent never know. I can easily correlate to their situation and honesty toward each other because in my entire life, there are no memories that I can evoke without my best friend, Tyler in it. I had known him since I was 5 years old. He was the one who cajoled me when I was crying on my first day at kindergarten. He was also the same boy who accompanied me to play softball every evening and taught me to ride a bike back when we were in primary school. The rapport that we build slowly made us comfortable to find comfort in each other. There is one scene in the movie where Carmen, one of the best friend comments on the fact that she had no problem blowing up on Tibby, the other best friend. I believe that the