Friends FriendsA friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it bac k toyou

when you have forgotten the words. Good morning to the panel of honourab le judges, teachers and friends. On this fine morning, I would like to talkabout Friends.On this planet, who cant live without friends? Everyone. Bart Simpson woul dhave died of boredom with his sister, Lisa. That would not happen because hehas Milhouse of The Simpsons to tag along with him. We need our peers to liveour li ves, to joke around, and to help us with our mischievous plots. Who woulddare to tell an adult about our plans?Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the cha nnel through whom greatemotional and spiritual blessings flow. Friends will chee r us up when we are fullof depression. With eyes full of sorrow, we are bound to get attention themoment our friends notice. We usually just want them to hang a round with us, tohave a good time, to act silly and just be ourselves.Remember t he guy you had a crush on? That oh so hot Edward Cullen inTwilight? With his del icious sultry blue eyes and charming British accent thatwould make your heart me lt the instant he talks. During the days our favouriteHollywood artistes are fam ous, we tend to get carried away to Day Dream Land.Students our age are most pro bably to tell our buddies on how awesome theyare. Im sure none of you would go sc reaming to your mum and say Mum!Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen is soooo hot! Im going to read the third booklater. She would have said, Stop reading all those va mpire stories and get backto studying. Will your friends react the same way as yo ur mum? Of course not.They would sit down with you and say, Totally. I wish Im Kri sten Stewart. Iwould get to act and hang out with him off set. Acting as Bella w ould be so cool.This settles it. Our spirits would have been brought down if we d idnt have anyfriends.As well as our fantasy world, our buddies are on the job as our Fashion Police.We would be fined if we wear bell-bottoms with a T-shirt, which y our mum toldyou to, to our graduation ceremony. With our friends, we could choos e theappealing dress with stiletto boots which would look awesome in front of ac rowd. You can save a major fashion disaster.Friends are like peanut butter and j elly. They always stick together. Who elseother than your best friend would help you walk to the infirmary when you brokea foot while playing basketball? We alw ays stick together anywhere we go. Oneof us never follows. We walk side by side. We treat ourselves as equals. Alwaysbe humble and never brag on things that you own. One would never treat theother like leaves on the ground. Good friends are precious and rare likediamonds. Very hard to find. We should never cast our fri ends aside. Friends are like angels without wings. Some may be devils in disguise. Exactlyli ke the song Fly on The Wall by Miley Cyrus. The song tells about a personwhom you trusted and thought he was nice. Actually, he was betraying the onehe so called ca red. We should never betray our friends secrets to the world of rumour-hungry peo ple. As well as secrets, we shouldnt cancel our get-togetherat the last minute.Th eres only a few minutes left until an exam starts. You realised that youhavent mem orised the important facts yet. Who else other than your closestbuddy will sit n ext to you and repeat the words over and over again andhopefully remain in your brain for the next 60 minutes.A lot of people go through life with only a few fr iends. It seems that some haveless than that. They have no one they can call in good times or bad. There is noone with whom to bounce ideas around, or to talk a bout deep and troublingsubjects. They have no one to call in times of need or di fficulty. They arestanding alone, being an outcast.When we are bored, we could S MS our friends with our fingers at the speed of lightning. Or even go to their h ouse to catch up with the latest gossip. For mosttech-savvy people, they prefer going to chat rooms on the internet and interactwith people of different experie nces. Besides chatting, we are able to joinnetworking sites such as Facebook, My Space and Friendster. On these sites, weare able to search for long-lost friends as well as new people. These ways wontmake us lonely as we could interact with o ur friends in a different way.As life goes on, we meet different people each tim e. Some turned out to be ourbuddies. Friends come and go. We lose some and gain a lot more. Some friendsstay right by your side while others go the opposite way . There are times whenone of your friends becoming the matchmaker of your future

life, and succeeds.Good or bad friends come and go. But theres one thing for sur e, we cant livewithout them. Here is a poem on friends:-A friend is someone we tu rn toWhen our spirits need a lift,A friend is someone we treasureFor our friends hip is a gift,A friend is someone who fills our livesWith beauty, joy, and grace And makes the whole world we live inA better and happier place.With that, I than k you.