One person that has become closer to me in my life is my best friend Alexandria or "Alex". I met Alex my junior year of high school and throughout that year and the years leading up to the present, we have been best friends. Alex is someone who has always been very protective of the people in her life and i value how much our relationship has grown throughout the years. The relationship I have with her started an unexpected night at our church youth group. Alex was a friend of one the girls that attended youth group Rachel. Knowing Rachel, she attended more and more youth groups and I got to know Alex very well.
The type of communication i use with Alex is I-You communication. In the beginning of our relationship topics we discussed included who we both knew mutually. I discovered that she was actually dating a guy that went to my school. Through several conversations are topics progressed to things we like to do, sports we played, family we have, etc. There was nothing that we couldn't talk about.
Thank you, Lauren, for sharing your relationship with your best friend and how it developed over time. It is interesting how humans interact with one another in different scenarios. Yours is a perfect example of the situational context and how our psycho-social form of communication naturally occurs. For example, say if you two had met on the basketball court and she played for the other team. It is less likely that you two are going to want to even talk to each other let alone be friends. There still would have been communication, just not the best friend type of communication, showing us that communication happens everywhere except isolation.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this because I wrote about one of my best friends also. I think it if funny how many different ways people can become friends. Friendships can start for the most random reasons, (having mutual friends, being in a class together, joining the same organization, having a common interest, etc.), and I feel like they can continue and grow for even more random reasons. I think it is really interesting to see how not only my own but other people’s relationships progress, because no two are exactly the same; there are so many different factors that play into every relationship.
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