The magic of a new freind.

The event that changed me the most in my life wasn’t something traumatising or painful, it was a moment of happiness that continued to give me wonderful memories year after year. When I was a young child, I had trouble fitting in and making friends , for the most of my childhood all I had was an imaginary friend and my favourite toy, a cat teddy to play with and to keep me company, my brother had plenty of friends his age and would ignore me when they came around to play. It wasn’t until the first day I started school that I finally met someone that changed everything. For the purpose of her privacy I will call her A . I met A on the playground where most friendships start in primary school but as most of you can guess I didn’t know how to react to someone taking an interest in me or even wanting to be my friend and yet there I was trying to pave the way to a friendship in the most awkward way, I was trying to talk to her when I had no idea what to say or how to act because my in my mind ,I had never thought I would be able to make a friend as I was too shy and thought I liked playing on my own, but still I tried and succeed . As the weeks rolled on A encouraged me to come out of my shell and I started talking to the other children in my classes much to the surprise of my parents. As the years past and the magic of our friendship strengthened we became best friends and life was much more fun now. As we saw each other more and more with our families joking that we were becoming joined at the hip, as there were days were we would lose ourselves in our imaginations and play until one of our mothers would call us in for dinner, some days we would go and play at the beach. A and I would go looking for places to explore that could give us inspiration for our next game and we loved every moment, from playing on the sand to swimming in the cold sea water we always found something fun to do. As we grew up we played less and less but we began finding other things to do with our time, from video games to movie days even to writing a few short stories based of the games we used to play, some days we would stay indoors and talk for hours, normally about nothing sometimes about better times .When I look back on my life I see how much of a different person I become because of our surprise friendship and how it was the event that helped me in so many ways to change and become who I am today, without A’s friendship I wouldn’t of have the courage or the social skills to make friends though my life and I would not have known how to talk to the woman of my dreams. I know to some that there our bigger events in there that changed their lives for better or for worse but for me, the magic of our friendship changed everything for that timid little girl I used to be as I became braver, stronger and learned how much fun the world could really be. Although now we have both grown up and moved away from the village we grew up in, I will always treasure her friendship and all the memory’s we made over the year.