As we live, we meet lots of interesting people in our way. Some become our friends, some just acquaintances and some stay for a long time with becoming our best friends. Friendship is an important part of life. In friendship people of similar interests unite, they trust and support each other. Some people say that friendship is like a tree. If it finds good soil and favorable conditions it will grow and prosper. As for me, I have lots of friends and I’m proud of it. I know that most of them will give me a hand when needed. I choose friends carefully. I don’t like traitors and gossipmongers, so I try to stay with those who value friendship, can keep secrets and will help in difficult situation. Of course, it is good to have many friends, ten or twenty, for example. However, it is even better to have a couple of best friends, who are like brothers or sisters to you. I’m lucky to have such friends. Their names are Kate and Julia. Kate is two years older than me and Julia is almost my age. We go to the same school and we live in the same neighborhood. I’ve known them from childhood as we attended the same nursery. We spend lots of time together, discussing our school progress, boyfriend problems, etc. They say we should share same interests to be friends, but we are completely different. I like music and literature. Julia is rather sporty and she is interested in basketball. Kate is our intellectual center. She is very good at Maths and she easily solves all kinds of computing tasks. It’s good to be different, as we always can help each other with a number of school subjects.