With Friends Like These - Dorothy Rowe
We value friends, but the path of friendship, like love, rarely runs smooth. We may feel jealous of a friend's achievements when we want to feel happy for her. We might find it hard to give friends objective advice, unrelated to the person we want them to be. We can be reluctant to allow each other to change, sometimes falling out in a way that is painful for all involved. And yet, friendships are vitally important; central to our enjoyment of life.
Reread the first paragraph. What tone, or attitude, is created by the author’s use of the first-person pronouns we and our?
