Throughout the years of my life, I've always had trouble making friends, and keeping them. I would always make a few good friends at school, and then they would graduate or they would move, and I never hear from them again. Although this is sad, its part of life, and I eventually came to realize it as so. I have realized many things about friendship, and its importance in everyone's life.

In my first few weeks at college, I felt extremely lonely, and sad because I didn't know a single person at college when I first came here. However, I slowly began to make new friends and eventually began to build a close friend group which I still have today.

At the same time that I was making new friends, I was learning about the virtue of friendship in my Classical Political Thought class. From Aristotle to Plato, I read about the importance of friendship in society and in every single type of relationship.

I learned through class and through my experiences, the way in which friendship holds the world together and allows for a harmonious society. Plato thought that friendship was an important political construct, and Aristotle took it further by stating that one cannot be happy or virtuous without friendship.

So what I'm trying to say is thanks to all of my friends for being there for me, and helping me a better person, and thanks to my college professors who taught me more about the deeper meaning of friends.