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It Only Looks Easy By: Chloe P

 **No two people are the same. Not on the outside and not in the inside. We are all different.** Initially, in the book __It Only Looks Easy__  by Pamela Curtis Swallow, the things that people would do to see a best friend is shocking. This best friend is not a person, a blanket, or a stuffed animal; it is a dog.  A friend is a friend someone who you can count on and someone who is not the same person as you. Who you can help or lend a hand when ever you or they need it. Though life it only looks easy, or at least it seems that way. But it might not always be that way. If you say " No" that isn't the way life goes, people fear what they don't know. Sometimes people can even fear friends. You can always disagree with someone; mom, dad, brother, but the hardest of all is a friend. We all have had a fight none of us can argue with that. At times a disagreement can get the best of us. You can always have a controversy with someone but what you do and how you handle it is what really matters. You can do something that you will look back at and regret, or something that you could say “wow” I did the right thing in that situation. Like Kat, in this story her sister Hannah and her might not always get along. But they are always there for each other through the good and the bad times.

 Furthermore, you don't always have to agree with your friend.  **That's what makes us all different having our own opinion.** As I said before what you do with the problem is the thing that counts. We all have our own opinion and they are not always the same. We all express ourselves in different ways. In the book  __It Only Looks Easy__  having your own opinion is all that matters because this canine thinks of Kat as a best bud not just a loving owner. Kat thinks of Cheddar as just a true friend someone that she could count on to be there for her, rather she is right or wrong. Kat knows that Cheddar her dog can not talk to her, but that does not matter. It only looks easy; life is not as if seems. Almost losing someone in your life is very hard to get through. There is a girl named Kat and she totally shuts down after a horrible tragedy of almost losing her dog. We all have done bad things in our lives; Kat has made some bad choices in one extremely bad day, but this is by far the worst. Steeling a bike to go see her dog. Then having that bike stolen, trying to cover it up with a new lie in all in one day is too much. Kat has not had it easy her whole life. A seventh grade girl is going through a life changing experience starting on the first day of school. Not having her best bud to lean on. It will be something that she could not forget about. The reaction that some people might do in a situation like this is shocking. We all do different things, for different reasons because we are all different. So go out and be different have your own opinion.  **What the author Pamela Curtis Swallow is really trying to say is that you are going to face struggles in your life but you have to fight beyond that.** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In addition, you have your own limits and those are the boundaries lines that you have to set. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> You should pick friends who are going to build you up, if you have friends who are just going to knock you down, than good luck. They might be okay friends in general but in the long run they will not be able to support you the way that you need it. Of course you are going to run into times where you will not know what to do, but you have to trust your heart on where to go. But it always helps to have someone there for you. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">To help you in a situation you do not know how to deal with. Life is not as it always the way it appears. You will face things that you do <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> not know how to deal with. But that is only the beginning if you think that life is hard when you are a child than you will be amazed by the things that you will have to face when you are an adult. Kat is just an 12 year old kid, and is already experiencing the worst time of her life. But if she has the support she needs to pick her back up, she can carry on and forget about the past. There are going to be times where a struggles are the least of your problems but still you should have people there for you that are going to help you fight beyond the struggle that you have in life. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **Your personality is one of a kind.** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">So don't go thinking, <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//“I wish I were someone else.// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//They are wonderful, I will never be like them.”// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Along with that, y <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">ou can't put yourself down and go wishing you were different. You were made you for a special reason, to be one of a kind. We all have a gift that we should share with the world. Kat has the gift of true friendship, she is the one who will be best friends with you in Elementary School and still be friends with you in collage. Kat in this story wishes she was someone else; her sister. “She is beautiful and smart and who wouldn't want to be her?” Kat has claimed. Kat has made that very clear thorough out the book, that her sister is much better that her. Kat has to understand that she is beautiful on the inside and out, and she is a great friend to have, that is the gift that she was given. You are who you are so do not try to go and be someone else no matter how 'cool' or 'awesome' someone is. Trying to be someone else is just not right. The permission is just acquired to ask for, and people will think that you have changed and that is not always a good thing. Your personality is one of a kind. You can't try to be someone else besides yourself. The person who we are today is made up of many things witch are Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-control. In my life I have witnessed people trying to change into being someone else. It does not always turn out so pretty, Who would have thought that there are people out there who like people so much they want to be them? Living my life and being me is what I want to do. Everyone is different, that does not mean that all of our personality's are the same. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Consequently, two people are never the same. How could two people be the same? Not how we look, how we talk, or even the way we walk. Look around, the way we all are right now is what makes us the people who we are today. You don't see the same personality in everyone, the only one you see in you. As I was saying prior in my essay is that a friend to you is a friend to me. We all need someone it does not matter what is is for. We all should have a good friend who will be there for you when you need them. If you don't have a good friend than this is the time to go and find one. What does it mean to have good friends? Well to tell you the truth there are 3 things that you should look for in a good person. Those three things are 1: Someone who will make you smile even on the gloomiest day in the world. 2: Someone who makes good choices through a life and not the ones that they will regret later. 3: Someone who could stand by your side when ever and for what ever. Having a friend it was makes the world go around. They are what makes us feel better when we feel hopeless. Who make us feel okay when we have done something horrible. They are what encourage us to do the challenges that we thought we would we never do. Most of your friends like you for your personality and for your kindness and willingness to try new things. There is also those friends that only like you for the way you dress or how smart you are. Those are the friends that will knock you down. Your friends are different, in fact one of a kind, they hit that spot that makes you feel comfortable around them, that spot where no matter who makes fun of you or who gets mad at you. Your friends are your friends and that is what makes our day brighten.