Life is filled with challenges .As we get older we come to relize that those challenges are the very things that shape us and make us who we are.It is the same with the challenges that come with friendship .When we are faced with a challenges,we usually have two choices ,We can try to beat it off,or wo can decide that the thing presenting the challenge isnot worth the trouble and call it quits.Although there are certainly times when calling it quits is the right thing to do ,in most cases all that is needed is commitment and communication.when we are committed to something ,it means that no matter how painful or how uncomfortable something is,we will always choose to face it and work it through istead of running away from it,communication is making a space for discussion and taiking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong.If you can say to a friend ,''I got my feelings hurt ,''rather than ''you hurt my feelings ''you n are going to be able to solve the problem much faster In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you ,try to see them for what they are ;smaii hurdles you need to jump or get through onyour way through life.Nothing is so big that it is impossible to get over ,and hurt only serves to make us stronger .It is all part of growing up ,it happens to everyone ,and some day you will look back on all of this and say ''Hard as it is ,it made me who I am today .And that is a good thing.