WHAT MAKES A GOOD FRIEND
Who is a good friend and who is a simple acquaintance? Today these two things are frequently mistaken each other. A person is considered a friend when makes the other enjoy himself. But this concept is only one of the features of a good friend. In fact, a good friend always tries to help the other in difficult situations and doesn't abandon him. A friend who avoids the difficulties of the other isn't a real friend. Besides, a good friend always tries to give good advice to solve the other's problems. Furthermore, people who are envious or jealous aren't good friends. And people who are selfish or always boast about their properties or skills aren't good friends too. A good friend must never hurt the other psychologically and must be honest with him. It is better if friends have the same interests and the same character, but it isn't compulsory (the proverb says that variety is the spice of life). It is difficult to find a person with all these traits; therefore, as the saying goes, a good friend is worth his weight in gold. These friendships last long, while the pretended but always funny ones are ephemeral and fugitive.

WHAT MAKES ME SUFFER
I'm hurt whenever I can't make the best of myself or whenever I make a serious mistake. When this happens, I'm very disappointed, because I always involve myself in everything I do. Therefore I get angry and all this make me suffer. I suffer whenever I have to do things I don't like or I can't do things I would like to do. I suffer whenever I'm worried about somebody or something, because I don't know what may happen and this infuses uneasiness into me. I'm hurt whenever I come to know an adversity has occurred, because I think it may occur to everybody. I suffer whenever I get angry with somebody or something, or whenever I harm somebody, physically or psychologically. In this case, I feel terribly guilty. I suffer whenever I hear about the violence there is in the world, even in my contemporaries, who go as far as to kill someone. I'm hurt also whenever I think about the pollution produced by human beings, who are destroying the only earth on which we can live. Abandoned rubbish is easy to find everywhere and plenty of wonderful animal species are disappearing. And what's worse is that if we don't take care of the Earth, we-all will die.