Discussions on Friendship and Human Relationship in General
The learners of Grades 10 and 11 were asked to answer 10 questions concerning friendship and human relationship in general. Here are the ten questions:
1. There is a saying which says : “ To lose a friend start sharing a flat or room with him/her.” Do you agree?
2. What is the difference between friendship and kinship (blood relations)?
3. To what extent can you be friends with your mother, father?
4. How important is forgiveness in human relationship?
5. What can your friends do to make you fall out with each other?
6. What type of people do you get on well with?
7. What things should friends never do?
8. How can a good friendship be maintained?
9. Has a friend ever let you down?
10. Have your friends had any influence on your life in a positive way?
2. What is the difference between friendship and kinship (blood relations)?
3. To what extent can you be friends with your mother, father?
4. How important is forgiveness in human relationship?
5. What can your friends do to make you fall out with each other?
6. What type of people do you get on well with?
7. What things should friends never do?
8. How can a good friendship be maintained?
9. Has a friend ever let you down?
10. Have your friends had any influence on your life in a positive way?
Here is what the learners answered:
Question 1.
Venera Arakelyan: “ I agree with it. During a trip you get to know your friend better and you can choose whether to stay with him, to carry on friendship or not.
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I don’t agree with it. When you share a flat or a room with your friend, you may discover that your friend is in fact a bad person, but you can also find out that she is a perfect and even a fantastic person. She can keep all your secrets and help you when you are in trouble.
Aida Grigoryan: “I think that it depends on characteristic features and tastes of different people. If they have many things in common, if they like to watch the same films, if they like to listen to the same music, if they like to chat about the things that interest them both, if they have spent very many good days and often remember the lovely moments spent together, they will never fall out with each other.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “I think that if you know your friend well you will never split up no matter you live in a flat or a room or spend a few days on a trip.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “It depends on what kind of friend you have. Real friends never disappoint each other in any situation.”
Larisa Simonyan: “I agree, sometimes we don’t know our friends well. We get to know them better when we travel with them or live in the same camp.
Question 2
Venera Arakelyan: “The difference between friendship and kinship is that you can’t choose your parents or kinship but you can choose your friends. A few days ago I read a saying where the author thanks god for being able to choose friends.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ Of course we can’t do without our kinship. Mother is the dearest person in life but sometimes we need a teenage friend to tell her our secrets, about our happiness and sadness.
Aida Grigoryan: “ The best thing is when a kinship relation is also your best friend. For example, I have an elder sister whom I often tell about my opinions, secrets and sometimes she trusts me hers. I am sure she will never let me down, because she is not only a sister but also a close friend. Once we travelled to Hankavan together. I introduced her to my friends and teachers and our relationship became closer.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I think sometimes we can trust our friends more than our kinship relatives.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “There are things that you can’t tell your relatives because they will not understand you. Friends can understand you in most situations.”
Larisa Simonyan: “We can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our relations. That doesn’t mean though that our relations can’t be our friends. We can easily split up with our friend who has let us down but we can’t get rid of our relations.”
Question 3
Venera Arakelyan: “My mother has always been and will be my best friend. I trust her and tell about my secrets and feelings. She always gives me good advice.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I think that Mother can be the best friend of her daughter and Father of his son. Mother can understand her daughter in every situation, because she also was once a girl like her daughter many years ago.
Aida Grigoryan: “I am used to telling my parents about my day, about what I have done or what has happened at school. I always consult them when I have a problem. But I avoid speaking to them about my daily personal problems or about the relationship with my friends.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “Every day when I go home, I tell my mother about everything, but sometimes there are secrets that I don’t tell my mother. I tell my secrets to my close friend or my sister. I think they will not let me down.
Vahe Gharibyan: “I can’t have the same relationship with my parents as I have with my friends, because if I tell my parents everything, they will not allow to do this or that. They worry about me too much.”
Larisa Simonyan: “In my opinion we must be very close to our parents, because they really think and worry about our life. They never pretend.
Question 4
Venera Arakelyan: “Forgiveness is very important in friendship. I think we should forgive to be forgiven.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “If there were no forgiveness, our lives would be disastrous. Forgiveness is very important in every human life and relationship.”
Aida Grigoryan: “I think that I can forgive a person whom I really love no matter what he or she has done. Maybe he or she has spoiled my mood accidentally or hasn’t counted with my problem… It’s a part of our life. On the other hand there are people whom I don’t like and I can be very touchy and be rude to them with no serious reason.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “Each person must have an ability to forgive because when you forgive you become more friendly. I always try to forgive but sometimes it’s too hard.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “I can forgive only my relatives and real friends, but betrayal on purpose can’t be forgiven.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ I can forgive my friend if she has let me down by chance not on purpose.”
Question 5
Liana Amirkhanyan: “If a friend really needs and loves you, he/she won’t do such things to make me fall out with each other. But sometimes she/he can do stupid things to make me nervous, or gossip about me in different companies.
Aida Grigoryan: “There was a time when I had a good friend but we split up. I still don’t understand the real reason. Maybe it happens when your friend and you don’t have anything in common any more.”
Gayane Gharakhanyaan: “If my friend tells me a lie, if she tells my secrets to others, I will fall out with her.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Nothing. Best friends never fall out with each other.”
Larisa Simonyan: “If she lets me down on purpose, I will fall out with her.”
Question 6
Venera Arakelyan: “I can get on well with happy, bright, communicative and not nervous people.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I can get on well with people who are like me, people who have the same points of view, people who have the same reactions in any situation, people who share their opinions with me, who aare helpful and don’t let other people down.
Aida Grigoryan: “I get on well with simple people who are not self conceited. Most of all I appreciate this quality in people. I also appreciate honesty and communicativeness, and when I realize how positive he or she is while communicating with him or her, I begin to love him or her more.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I get on well with honest people who do not tell lies.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “People are very different.”
Larisa Simonyan: “I easily get on well with people who are honest, don’t tell lies, who are grateful, patient and independent.”
Question 7
Venera Arakelyan: “ Friends should never lie to each other, let each other down, gossip and be jealous.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ They shouldn’t do many things: For example, they shouldn’t gossip about each other in other companies, they shouldn’t make fun of each other in front of other people.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ A real friend should never leave you alone when you are feeling bad or tell other people the things which you have trusted her.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I think friends should never betray each other and should never avoid helping each other.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Betrayal”
Larisa Simonyan: “ They should never betray each other and let each other down on purpose.”
Question 8
Venera Arakelyan: “ By not doing the things mentioned in Point 7.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ Maintaining can be different for different people. I think friends should be interesting to each other. My best friend and I have been friends for 12 years. It seems to me that we know everything about each other but every time we meet we find a lot of interesting things to talk about.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ There is a saying about friends which says: Friends are thieves of time. That means that if you have a real friend, you should devote your time to her/him. You should meet her/him very often or talk on the phone. You should always be in contact. But there are cases when friends do not meet or phone each other because they are too busy. That doesn’t mean that your friend doesn’t care for you any more. Real friends always stay real friends.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ By fully trusting each other.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Loyalty to each other should be in the first place.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ I have already answered this question in point 7.”
Question 9
Venera Arakelyan: “ Yes, but I have taken it easy. Now I am trying to keep away from such friends.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ No, my friend has never let me down.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ Never”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ Several years ago I had a friend whom I trusted very much. But soon I learned that she had gossiped about me. I understood that we were very different from each other. Soon we split up.
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Among my friends there is nobody who can let me down.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ Yes, only once.”
Question 10
Venera Arakelyan: “ I love my friends very much. They make my day very interesting, merry with positive emotions. Even in a bad situation we help each other and get through it easily and optimistically.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “My friend has had a fantastic influence on my life and world outlook. She has introduced songs of different genres to me. She has introduced new food and fashion of clothes to me. We have the same opinions to different phenomena in life. I am proud of having such a friend.
Aida Grigoryan: “ I have had a great many happy moments with my friends. I have enriched my world outlook by communicating with them. We have often had the same opinion when we complained about injustice. So I can say that my friends have helped me to be formed as a citizen.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “They have encouraged me to overcome difficulties and to achieve my aims.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “When I am upset about something or depressed, they help me to overcome sadness and be happy.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ Although my friends have never had any positive influence on my life I continue helping and supporting them.”
Question 1.
Venera Arakelyan: “ I agree with it. During a trip you get to know your friend better and you can choose whether to stay with him, to carry on friendship or not.
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I don’t agree with it. When you share a flat or a room with your friend, you may discover that your friend is in fact a bad person, but you can also find out that she is a perfect and even a fantastic person. She can keep all your secrets and help you when you are in trouble.
Aida Grigoryan: “I think that it depends on characteristic features and tastes of different people. If they have many things in common, if they like to watch the same films, if they like to listen to the same music, if they like to chat about the things that interest them both, if they have spent very many good days and often remember the lovely moments spent together, they will never fall out with each other.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “I think that if you know your friend well you will never split up no matter you live in a flat or a room or spend a few days on a trip.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “It depends on what kind of friend you have. Real friends never disappoint each other in any situation.”
Larisa Simonyan: “I agree, sometimes we don’t know our friends well. We get to know them better when we travel with them or live in the same camp.
Question 2
Venera Arakelyan: “The difference between friendship and kinship is that you can’t choose your parents or kinship but you can choose your friends. A few days ago I read a saying where the author thanks god for being able to choose friends.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ Of course we can’t do without our kinship. Mother is the dearest person in life but sometimes we need a teenage friend to tell her our secrets, about our happiness and sadness.
Aida Grigoryan: “ The best thing is when a kinship relation is also your best friend. For example, I have an elder sister whom I often tell about my opinions, secrets and sometimes she trusts me hers. I am sure she will never let me down, because she is not only a sister but also a close friend. Once we travelled to Hankavan together. I introduced her to my friends and teachers and our relationship became closer.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I think sometimes we can trust our friends more than our kinship relatives.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “There are things that you can’t tell your relatives because they will not understand you. Friends can understand you in most situations.”
Larisa Simonyan: “We can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our relations. That doesn’t mean though that our relations can’t be our friends. We can easily split up with our friend who has let us down but we can’t get rid of our relations.”
Question 3
Venera Arakelyan: “My mother has always been and will be my best friend. I trust her and tell about my secrets and feelings. She always gives me good advice.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I think that Mother can be the best friend of her daughter and Father of his son. Mother can understand her daughter in every situation, because she also was once a girl like her daughter many years ago.
Aida Grigoryan: “I am used to telling my parents about my day, about what I have done or what has happened at school. I always consult them when I have a problem. But I avoid speaking to them about my daily personal problems or about the relationship with my friends.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “Every day when I go home, I tell my mother about everything, but sometimes there are secrets that I don’t tell my mother. I tell my secrets to my close friend or my sister. I think they will not let me down.
Vahe Gharibyan: “I can’t have the same relationship with my parents as I have with my friends, because if I tell my parents everything, they will not allow to do this or that. They worry about me too much.”
Larisa Simonyan: “In my opinion we must be very close to our parents, because they really think and worry about our life. They never pretend.
Question 4
Venera Arakelyan: “Forgiveness is very important in friendship. I think we should forgive to be forgiven.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “If there were no forgiveness, our lives would be disastrous. Forgiveness is very important in every human life and relationship.”
Aida Grigoryan: “I think that I can forgive a person whom I really love no matter what he or she has done. Maybe he or she has spoiled my mood accidentally or hasn’t counted with my problem… It’s a part of our life. On the other hand there are people whom I don’t like and I can be very touchy and be rude to them with no serious reason.
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “Each person must have an ability to forgive because when you forgive you become more friendly. I always try to forgive but sometimes it’s too hard.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “I can forgive only my relatives and real friends, but betrayal on purpose can’t be forgiven.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ I can forgive my friend if she has let me down by chance not on purpose.”
Question 5
Liana Amirkhanyan: “If a friend really needs and loves you, he/she won’t do such things to make me fall out with each other. But sometimes she/he can do stupid things to make me nervous, or gossip about me in different companies.
Aida Grigoryan: “There was a time when I had a good friend but we split up. I still don’t understand the real reason. Maybe it happens when your friend and you don’t have anything in common any more.”
Gayane Gharakhanyaan: “If my friend tells me a lie, if she tells my secrets to others, I will fall out with her.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Nothing. Best friends never fall out with each other.”
Larisa Simonyan: “If she lets me down on purpose, I will fall out with her.”
Question 6
Venera Arakelyan: “I can get on well with happy, bright, communicative and not nervous people.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “I can get on well with people who are like me, people who have the same points of view, people who have the same reactions in any situation, people who share their opinions with me, who aare helpful and don’t let other people down.
Aida Grigoryan: “I get on well with simple people who are not self conceited. Most of all I appreciate this quality in people. I also appreciate honesty and communicativeness, and when I realize how positive he or she is while communicating with him or her, I begin to love him or her more.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I get on well with honest people who do not tell lies.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “People are very different.”
Larisa Simonyan: “I easily get on well with people who are honest, don’t tell lies, who are grateful, patient and independent.”
Question 7
Venera Arakelyan: “ Friends should never lie to each other, let each other down, gossip and be jealous.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ They shouldn’t do many things: For example, they shouldn’t gossip about each other in other companies, they shouldn’t make fun of each other in front of other people.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ A real friend should never leave you alone when you are feeling bad or tell other people the things which you have trusted her.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ I think friends should never betray each other and should never avoid helping each other.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Betrayal”
Larisa Simonyan: “ They should never betray each other and let each other down on purpose.”
Question 8
Venera Arakelyan: “ By not doing the things mentioned in Point 7.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ Maintaining can be different for different people. I think friends should be interesting to each other. My best friend and I have been friends for 12 years. It seems to me that we know everything about each other but every time we meet we find a lot of interesting things to talk about.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ There is a saying about friends which says: Friends are thieves of time. That means that if you have a real friend, you should devote your time to her/him. You should meet her/him very often or talk on the phone. You should always be in contact. But there are cases when friends do not meet or phone each other because they are too busy. That doesn’t mean that your friend doesn’t care for you any more. Real friends always stay real friends.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ By fully trusting each other.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Loyalty to each other should be in the first place.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ I have already answered this question in point 7.”
Question 9
Venera Arakelyan: “ Yes, but I have taken it easy. Now I am trying to keep away from such friends.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “ No, my friend has never let me down.”
Aida Grigoryan: “ Never”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “ Several years ago I had a friend whom I trusted very much. But soon I learned that she had gossiped about me. I understood that we were very different from each other. Soon we split up.
Vahe Gharibyan: “ Among my friends there is nobody who can let me down.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ Yes, only once.”
Question 10
Venera Arakelyan: “ I love my friends very much. They make my day very interesting, merry with positive emotions. Even in a bad situation we help each other and get through it easily and optimistically.”
Liana Amirkhanyan: “My friend has had a fantastic influence on my life and world outlook. She has introduced songs of different genres to me. She has introduced new food and fashion of clothes to me. We have the same opinions to different phenomena in life. I am proud of having such a friend.
Aida Grigoryan: “ I have had a great many happy moments with my friends. I have enriched my world outlook by communicating with them. We have often had the same opinion when we complained about injustice. So I can say that my friends have helped me to be formed as a citizen.”
Gayane Gharakhanyan: “They have encouraged me to overcome difficulties and to achieve my aims.”
Vahe Gharibyan: “When I am upset about something or depressed, they help me to overcome sadness and be happy.”
Larisa Simonyan: “ Although my friends have never had any positive influence on my life I continue helping and supporting them.”
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