A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it

back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Good morning to the panel of honourable judges, teachers and friends. On

this fine morning, I would like to talk about “Friends”.

On this planet, who can’t live without friends? Everyone. Bart Simpson
would have died of boredom with his sister, Lisa. That would not happen
because he has Milhouse of The Simpsons to tag along with him. We need
our peers to live our lives, to joke around, and to help us with our
mischievous plots. By the way, I would like to ask you a very special
question… Do you have friends? Or.. Do you have a best friend?

Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel through whom great

emotional and spiritual blessings flow. Friends will cheer us up when we
are full of depression. With eyes full of sorrow, we are bound to get
attention the moment our friends notice. We usually just want them to
hang around with us, to have a good time, to act silly and just be
ourselves.

Members of the floor,

Friends are like peanut butter and jelly. They always stick together. Who
else other than your best friend would help you walk to the infirmary when
you broke a foot while playing football? We always stick together
anywhere we go. One of us never follows. We walk side by side. We treat
ourselves as equals. Always be humble and never brag on things that you
own. One would never treat the other like leaves on the ground. Good
friends are precious and rare like diamonds. Very hard to find. We should
never cast our friends aside.

Friends are like angels without wings. Some may be devils in disguise.
Exactly like the song ‘Fly on The Wall’ by Miley Cyrus. The song tells about
a person whom you trusted and thought he was nice. Actually, he was
betraying the one he ‘so called’ cared. We should never betray our
friends’ secrets to the world of rumour-hungry people. As well as secrets,
we shouldn’t cancel our get-together at the last minute.

My dear teachers and friends,

There’s only a few minutes left until an exam starts. You realised that you
haven’t memorised the important facts yet. Who else other than your
closest buddy will sit next to you and repeat the words over and over
again and hopefully remain in your brain for the next 60 minutes.

A lot of people go through life with only a few friends. It seems that some
have less than that. They have no one they can call in good times or bad.
There is no one with whom to bounce ideas around, or to talk about deep
and troubling subjects. They have no one to call in times of need or
difficulty. They are standing alone, being an outcast.

Teachers and friends,

When we are bored, we could SMS our friends with our fingers at the
speed of lightning. Or even go to their house to catch up with the latest
gossip. For most tech-savvy people, they prefer going to chat rooms on
the internet and interact with people of different experiences. Besides
chatting, we are able to join networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace
and Friendster. On these sites, we are able to search for long-lost friends
as well as new people. These ways won’t make us lonely as we could
interact with our friends in a different way.

As life goes on, we meet different people each time. Some turned out to
be our buddies. Friends come and go. We lose some and gain a lot more.
Some friends stay right by your side while others go the opposite way.
There are times when one of your friends becoming the matchmaker of
your future life, and succeeds. Good or bad friends come and go. But
there’s one thing for sure, we can’t live without them. I would like to
dedicate a poem on friends:-

A friend is someone we turn to

When our spirits need a lift,

A friend is someone we treasure

For our friendship is a gift,

A friend is someone who fills our lives

With beauty, joy, and grace

And makes the whole world we live in

A better and happier place.

Trust me, good friend hard to find but easy to get and will be on your side
forever. With that, I thank you.