Your Lennie

Think of someone who you have known most of your life; someone who is close to your age; your best friend or blood brother/sister; you have always protected each other. Then your friend is in a terrible accident. He/she now has some brain damage. He/She can still do most things; but he/she forgets things; acts very childlike (not childish). Still looks up to you for friendship and protection. Your other friends make fun of him/her and tell you to drop him/her as a friend. Would your friendship end? Why? Why not? How do you protect him/her from the cruelty of society? Can you? Why or Why not? 

• I am a person who believes that friendship is a really important thing in life. I take friendship really seriously, so I pick my friends carefully. Once I pick them, I hope that I can be friends with them forever. So, even if an accident like this happened and my friend now has a severe brain damage and cannot remember well or acts childlike, I will still treat him or her as a friend and try to help them as much as I can. Also, I believe that if a single accident can stop us from being friends, then we aren't really friends.

• To protect him or her from society, I would first check to see if he or she has any chance for recovery. If there is, then I would want him or her to first say in the hospital to take treatment. If treatment does not work, then I would have to help him or her settle into a hospital for disabilities. Then, when I grow up, I will find time to go and see him or her, and also donate money to him or her when he or she needs it. I believe this is the most that I, as a friend can do for him or her.