Friendships
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Who were his/her best friends over the years? What did they do together? Choosing this Topic gives you different writing ideas at different points in his/her life story to help record the special times spent with friends.
Would you like to talk about the friendships he/she had during his/her childhood?
- Where did he/she meet most of his/her friends? In his/her neighborhood, school, or church? Did all his/her friends associate together or were there separate groups?
- What did he/she typically do with his/her friends? Did they ever get into trouble? If so, was there one person who tended to make more trouble than the rest?
- Did he/she ever have any fights with his/her friends? What about? Did they ever get into a physical fight?
- Was there one friendship in particular that he/she cherished the most during this period of his/her life? What made it more special than the rest? Did he/she ever lose touch with this person? If so, under what circumstances?
Would you like to talk about the friendships he/she had during his/her teenage years?
- At what age did he/she first think about the term friendship? Did he/she look at it as being a special relationship or were his/her "friends" just other people in the world?
- Where did he/she meet most of his/her friends? In his/her neighborhood, school, or church? Did all his/her friends associate together or were there separate groups? Where did they hang out?
- What did he/she typically do with his/her friends? Did they ever get into trouble? If so, was there one person who tended to make more trouble than the rest?
- Describe some of the times they spent together. Did they go to games, concerts, or parties? What else might they have done together?
- For many people, teenage years are a difficult time. Did he/she and his/her friends help each other through this period? Did he/she feel that he/she could tell his/her friends anything?
- Did he/she ever have any fights with his/her friends? What about? Did they ever get into a physical fight?
- Did he/she ever lose any friends? Under what circumstances? How did it make him feel?
- Was there ever any competition between him and his/her friends? In what areas? Sports, academics, attention, girlfriends, or boyfriends?
- Was there one friendship in particular that he/she cherished the most during this period of his/her life? What made it more special than the rest? Did he/she ever lose touch with this person? If so, under what circumstances?
Would you like to talk about the friendships he/she had during his/her young adult years?
- Where did he/she meet most of his/her friends? In his/her neighborhood, school, church, at work, or social events? Did all his/her friends associate together or were there separate groups?
- What qualities did he/she look for in a friend? Why did he/she become friends with the people that he/she did?
- What did he/she typically do with his/her friends? Go to parties, movies, take trips, or have dinners?
- Did he/she ever have any fights with his/her friends? What about? Did they get into a physical fight?
- Did he/she ever lose any friends? Under what circumstances? How did it make him feel?
- Was there ever any competition between him and his/her friends? In what areas? Sports, academics, girlfriends, boyfriends, jobs, money?
- As he/she matured, were there any friends that he/she grew apart from? If so, why?
- Did he/she find it harder to spend time with friends as he/she grew older? Did family, work, or other commitments get in the way?
- Was there one friendship in particular that he/she cherished the most during this period of his/her life? What made it more special than the rest? Did he/she ever lose touch with this person? If so, under what circumstances?
Would you like to talk about the friendships he/she had during his/her adult years?
- Where did he/she meet most of his/her friends? In his/her neighborhood, at school, church, work, or social events? Did all his/her friends associate together or were there separate groups?
- What qualities did he/she look for in a friend? Why did he/she become friends with the people that he/she did?
- What did he/she typically do with his/her friends? Go to parties or the movies, take trips, have dinners, or attend other social events?
- Did he/she ever have any fights with his/her friends? What about? Did they get into a physical fight?
- Did he/she ever lose any friends? Under what circumstances? How did it make him feel?
- Was there ever any competition between him and his/her friends? In what areas? Sports, knowledge, jobs, money?
- Throughout the years, were there any friends that he/she grew closer to? Were there some that he/she drifted away from? If so, why?
- Did he/she find it harder to spend time with friends as he/she grew older? Did family, work, or other commitments get in the way?
- Was there one friendship in particular that he/she cherished the most during this period of his/her life? What made it more special than the rest? Did he/she ever lose touch with this person? If so, under what circumstances?
Would you like to talk about the friendships he/she had during his/her senior years?
- Where did he/she meet most of his/her friends? In his/her neighborhood, at church, work, or social events? Did all his/her friends associate together or were there separate groups?
- What qualities did he/she look for in a friend? Why did he/she become friends with the people that he/she did?
- What did he/she typically do with his/her friends? Go to parties or the movies, take trips, have dinner, or attend other social events?
- Did he/she ever have any fights with his/her friends? What about?
- Did he/she ever lose any friends? Under what circumstances? How did it make him feel?
- Was there ever any competition between him and his/her friends? In what areas? Money, knowledge?
- Throughout the years, were there any friends that he/she grew closer to? If so, why?
- Did he/she find it harder to spend time with friends as he/she grew older? Was it more difficult to go see them? Did family or other commitments get in the way?
- If he/she lost his/her spouse or any children later in life, were his/her friends a good support system for him? Did they help him get through the difficult times?
- Was there one friendship in particular that he/she cherished the most during this period of his/her life? What made it more special than the rest? Did he/she ever lose touch with this person? If so, under what circumstances?