VOL. XV, NO. 5
DECEMBER 21, 1973
Friends Show Extra Love at Christmas
By MELINDA VAUGHN
To every person there is a special and different reasons or meaning of Christmas. Christmas is different to everybody in many ways. Different countries celebrate it differently, and so do people. Yet, despite these differences in cultures and ideals, there is one thing almost everyone holds in high esteem around Christmas time: friends.
There are many kinds of friends: there's that friend in homeroom, the friend in each class, the friends in lunch, the friend you walk or ride to school with, and there's that friend in the faculty. Some are special, and others are just those who help you to exist day by day.
Of course, there's the very special friend who goes Christmas shopping with you. This kind person trudges faithfully and endlessly beside you through huge crowded stores knowing very well that he's been done shopping for a long time. Another understands, when you ask if he'd go outside to check the weather, that you're trying to buy his present.
To every person there is a special and different reasons or meaning of Christmas. Christmas is different to everybody in many ways. Different countries celebrate it differently, and so do people. Yet, despite these differences in cultures and ideals, there is one thing almost everyone holds in high esteem around Christmas time: friends.
There are many kinds of friends: there's that friend in homeroom, the friend in each class, the friends in lunch, the friend you walk or ride to school with, and there's that friend in the faculty. Some are special, and others are just those who help you to exist day by day.
Of course, there's the very special friend who goes Christmas shopping with you. This kind person trudges faithfully and endlessly beside you through huge crowded stores knowing very well that he's been done shopping for a long time. Another understands, when you ask if he'd go outside to check the weather, that you're trying to buy his present.
But all in all your friends are friends because they care. You may find yourself doubting this when they play a dirty trick on you or send you that insulting Christmas card every year without fail, but they really do care about you.
Christmas is a time of year that really brings out the good in people and the goodness in friends. They open up and perhaps get uncommonly friendly and terribly nice all of a sudden; but still, they are true friends that we should all recognize and do something special for.
Christmas is a time of year that really brings out the good in people and the goodness in friends. They open up and perhaps get uncommonly friendly and terribly nice all of a sudden; but still, they are true friends that we should all recognize and do something special for.