Ok, so my English teacher gave me an assignment on Tuesday - write paper on life, learning, and friendship, it can be no longer than one sheet of paper. That's it. Here's what I came up with: Life. Learning. Friendship. It’s taken me a long time to realize how interdependent these three things are, and I know that I’m so far away from truly understanding the impact on me that they have. Each of these factors is nothing without the other two. If you live your whole life without learning or forming friendships, you really haven’t lived at all. To truly become someone’s friend you must learn from and listen to them, and there is no friendship if you don’t experience life with them. Life always seems to choose your best friends. It makes unbreakable, lasting bonds, sometimes with the last person you’d have chosen yourself. Life has pulled this trick on me in the past. One day I met someone in a class, someone I completely hated. Now, three years later they’re my best friend. Life has this silly way of bringing people to you, people it somehow knows you need. I hold friendship extremely high in my life, therefore friendship and life are both very important to me. My friends are my life; I have absolutely no idea what I’d do without them. Life is meaningless without learning. There’s more to life than simply living. To make the best of life, you have to take the best away from life. You have to absorb every little thing life throws your way. Don’t take anything it gives you for granted. You can’t be afraid to mess up, for the best way to learn is through your mistakes. You can’t let your mistakes get you down, you have to use them as a stepping stone and learn from them and let them make you stronger. You can’t let your life control you - you must control your life, or you’ll be helpless. Actress Angelina Jolie said it best, “The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.” I could not agree with her more. Think I got it right?