Write about a disagreement you had with someone close to you and what you did to restore your relationship with the person. ESSAY SKELETON by Lim

Rehaan(19)

2024-08-27 00:38:14 UTC

Introduction-arguing over group discussion, has a flashback in 1st para after seeing his group's worksheet during the project. Subject is Literature.
His name is Fernando.
We had a disagreement as I felt he was not contributing at all to our project. He frequently did not show up at our meet-ups and was whining a lot.
We talked during one of the meet-ups when he FINALLY showed up. We finally agreed and made up
We got great marks for the project, an A1. We reconciled and were close friends once again

Ying Rui (30)

2024-08-27 00:38:37 UTC

Noise Complaint, Neighbour, living in hostel.
He was a friend, my neighbour, who hated loud noise
The loud noise kept disturbing his sleep, and we fought because he was unhappy about it.
I tried various ways of resolving it but it always ends up in another complaint, but we talked it out and decided the best course of action for both of us.
He was happy about it in the end and we never had fights about noise anymore

Awwadi (4)

2024-08-27 00:38:45 UTC

football match intro -- flashback / anecdote
close classmate named Jamal. played with other classmates too
I did not foul him as I slide tackled him properly. I went for the ball then his leg. I only hit his leg on accident. Others witnessed it too. I should not give him a freekick or a penalty
We ended up arguing. In the end, because I hurt him a lot when I tackled him and argued with him, I gave him a free goal and a freekick. I thought him how to kick the ball too as I was more professional than him.
In the end, he was happy that he won. However, I was still a bit annoyed that Jamal had to be so whiny. thankfully, my teammates were there to empathise with me.

MUHD RIYAZ (20)

muhammad_riyaz_khairuzzaman2 — 2024-08-27 00:40:00 UTC

Giving a context to the situation. Me and brother like playing this sandbox game on our gaming console. We do contrasting things in the game. My brother likes causing havoc and destruction in the game while i like to play the game like a life simulator.
MY brother and i disagree with each each other
We dont like to share the controller with each other as we fear that the other person will mess with our playstyles. I dont like the fact that my brother will ram into the NPCs with the cars but my brother thinks that playing the game normally is boring so we fight over the controller and the game.
Me and my brother will later realise that we can make different save files of the game that wont interfere with the other save files. This allows us to not disturb each other with our different play styles
Both me and my brother can play the game ourselves :)

Derion (29)

tan_yan_fei_derion2 — 2024-08-27 00:40:28 UTC

Introduction:

loud noises in house
arguments with siblings over noise

1 Body Para:

squabble over who keeps making the noise

2 Body Para:

Accusing each other of noise making
Parents intervention attempt at resolving argument (fails)

3 Body Para:

Resolved via a negotiation and reconciliation through a shared agreement to both be quieter.

Conclusion:

Ended up making up to each other and accepting mistakes that were made along the way

Ethan V. (9)

2024-08-27 00:40:35 UTC

I had a fight with my sibling
I was being too noisy while he was studying
He complained that he could not focus
I told him not to complain about such trivial things and asked him to deal with it
He ended up getting a bad grade on his test and blamed me for it.
I told him that it was not my fault and that he just did not study hard enough
he complained about my noise and said that was the reason that he scored badly.
I told him to go away and stop bothering me
We ended up getting into an argument and stopped talking to each other
We ignored each other for two days and then i started to feel bad.
I invited him out for lunch together and we finally decided to make up.
I promised to help him with his studies and stop disturbing him with noise and we both ended up with A1 on our next exam.

Vahin(18)

2024-08-27 00:40:37 UTC

Break during football match in class
I was losing and in anger, i kicked the ball.
The ball had gone straight into the frined's face. It was unintentional to hurt him. he took it personally.
I went up and tried to apologise but he threw a few punches and did not believe me. Punches were flying everywhere when my other friends came to defend me. I shouted and asked everyone to stop. I told him the whole story and apologised.
My friend did not believe first then later i convinced him bcos i apologised a lot.

Antony Hu (12)

2024-08-27 00:40:38 UTC

Intro- Using my phone at home while my brother did nothing

I argued with my brother

Disagreement is how I can have a phone while brother does not. I tried to push him away as he was annoying me but he did not want to budge so I punched him away.

He was veery angry but I then realized that I should not have used my phone in front of him as it would make him jealous and I also should not have punched him away. I apologsied to him.
In the end, we both shared phone together and watched the videdos together.

Shashi (25)

shashi_srinivasan2 — 2024-08-27 00:41:00 UTC

Rhetorical Question
Have you ever had a disagreement with someone close to you? Well, I have. It happened a few months ago. Let me tell you all about it
Who is the 'close person' that you have disagreement with
Science Teacher
What is the disagreement about
A question in the paper which I did not understand and thought that the answer was different from what the teacher said. I did not understand the teacher's explanation and I also said my views which the teacher said was wrong but did not know how to explain. We went back and forth for while and eventually decided to meet after school to resolve.
What did you do to resolve
After school, our teacher and I met up after school to find out the answer. After a while of research, we eventually managed to arrive upon an answer. It turned out that I was wrong, but for me, the explanation given was easier to understand. The teacher also learnt something, how to explain the question better
What happened in the end
The teacher and I eventually were on good terms with each other and continued as if nothing ever happened. We both learnt something that day.

Evans (34)

woo_junyou_evans2 — 2024-08-27 00:41:06 UTC

Intro: Football, flashback

Close person: My childhood friend who often plays football with me

Disagreement: While playing football, my friend slide tackled another friend of mine. I was angry so i immediately pushed him and we fought. Even though I tried to make amends in school the next day, he ignored me.

Resolve: I messaged him saying that to make amends, I would give a brand new Adidas football to him.

Ending: He forgived me and we continued to be good friends

Koh Xiao Ye(16)

2024-08-27 00:41:26 UTC

Intro- doing a GA that is done in a group. Group consists of Me, my best friend and 3 of my other classmates.
Me and my best friend was talking about the math GA that we needed to do.
However, we had a different idea about one of the question. Started shouting and fighting. I started first as I had no more patience with his explanation that I do not understand at all
After some time of fighting and thinking, I realised that I was in the wrong as I should not be rushing through and I need to have patience while doing the work. He also did not do anything wrong so I felt very guilty. I apologized to him at last and he forgive me.
After much consideration, I finally understood his point and agreed with him. At last, we got quite a good mark for the GA. We are still friends from then on and I promised to him that I would not be to impulsive and will always have patience with others.

Justin

2024-08-27 00:41:33 UTC

1.intro- football, nostalgic, flashback

2.Russell, classmate and other classmates

3.disagreement- tackled him badly and fought him over he tripped and was like limping after that, got angry over who was in the wrong

4.resolve-apologised and realised it was my fault, I was in the wrong . classmates were glad that I apologised as I did the right thing

5.accepted my apology and we continued playing, I got more cautious ever since

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muhammad_riyaz_khairuzzaman2 — 2024-08-27 00:42:01 UTC

Tan Jun Sheng (27)

2024-08-27 00:42:22 UTC

Intro. Football nostalgic flashback
I had a disagreement with my best friend who was with me in primary school too.
when we were playing football, my friend tackled me and I fell down and sprained my ankle. We disagreed about whose fault it was.
I ask him to own up and he finally did .
In the end we went back to being friends and forgot that it ever happened.

Vishwam (31)

2024-08-27 00:42:31 UTC

1) Intro

I was looking at old messages.
Came across some peculiar messages with people.
Remembered about the flashback
2) Who is the close person
The argument was with my best friend.
3) What is the argument about?
I had gone on my computer and messaged people without my permission. It wasn't normal messages, I offended the people I messaged. He then had to apologise to the people I messaged.
4) What did you do to resolve?
He would not respond to my messages in which I tried to apologise, even when I told him I would do anything. He eventually gave in and responded to my messages when I told him I would buy potato corner for him.
5) What happened in the end?
We talked again and everything went back to normal in a record time of under 10 minutes

Russell junior (23)

russell_junior_lim_yi2 — 2024-08-27 00:42:50 UTC

1.we were assigned a project that need to be in groups of 4.We quickly decided on our group, it consisted of me,ryan,justin and lastly my best friend,raiden.

2.i had a conflict with my best friend raiden.

3.the conflict started to build up when we first disagreed with each others idea

4.we cconsulted the teacher to see who had a better idea

5.we resolved it apologizing and regretted

Zander 26

2024-08-27 00:43:02 UTC

Watching a cooking show, saw ice cream, flashback on disagreement that happened some years ago.
My younger brother and I was eating ice cream, but when the food arrived , there was only his ice cream came.
Seeing that there was only one ice cream, we both fought over it, arguing, before getting into an all out brawl, and I came out victorious due to the age gap and size difference. He was so pissed that he ran of, leaving me behind.
Just then, I came to my senses and realized that I was a fool to fight my brother over ice cream when I could have just simply tell the cashier of the error of the order. I panicked as I was responsible for my brother, and immediately ran off in search of my brother. Eventually, I found him huddled in a corner. I consoled him and apologized for my reckless actions before buying him another cone.
I learnt my lessons and changed for the better. Became closer brothers.

Izan (5)

2024-08-27 00:44:19 UTC

INTRO

characters: Me and Tom

Story starter: Flashback

Plot for first paragraph: Tom and I were best friends in primary school.

We would always go to the movies together every Sunday.

It was a tradition ever since kindergarten.

RISING ACTION

One Saturday, one of my classmates, Sam, who was considered one of the "cool" kids, said that he wanted to go to the movies with me. Although i knew that Tom would not like another person joining us due to our tradition, i still agreed as i want to hang out with Sam. i did not inform tom what happened.

CLIMAX

When Saturday was here, i brough Sam with me and we met tom in the mall. When tom saw Sam, he was annoyed and asked why i brought him along and not inform him about it. I argued that it was just a small incident, and we don't must fuss about it. Tom was frustrated and stormed out of the mall. and Sam and I watched the movie together.

FALLING ACTION

After the incident, i went home and told my mom about what happened. Although i expected her to agree with me that Tom was overreacting, she scolded me and said what would i feel that Sam brought a friend without informing me. That was when i realized that i should not have done and i regretted my actions. The next day, I apologized to tom and said that i would reform. He forgave me and we became friends again.

CONSLUSION

Once bitten twice shy.

Learnt a valuable lesson

Alessi (3)

2024-08-27 00:44:51 UTC

Intro - I wanted to make money. I sold snacks and candy though it was illegal in school. Got caught, had the return some of the money, and nearly got suspended
Mum, teachers
I sold a lot of snacks to all my classmates, but the syndicate became too big and someone snitched me out
We argued about why this was wrong/ok. I thought that the school rules were ridiculous, since you were allowed to sell food and other things in my other friends schools, and also think that the warning was useless, as i am going to graduate primary school in a few months and the suspension did not matter just my psle results. 4.
After arguing, I reflected on why this happened, and realised next time i should sell things at a smaller scale
I apologised to my mother and promised i would not get caught in the future.

Kael Lee (14)

kael_lee_chenghua1 — 2024-08-27 00:45:19 UTC

Intro-The fight about our project.
My classmate Jamal.
We had a disagreement about a Math project. I thought that he was not doing anything to contribute and was feeling used and manipulated. After some reflection, I realized that it was because of my poor communication and did not tell Jamal the exact instructions.
I had a discussion with Jamal and we gave each other tasks for the Math projects that allow us to complete the project with no problems.
We agreed to listen to each other's concerns in the future and be more open-minded to share our thoughts.

Russell Chew 22

russell_junior_lim_yi2 — 2024-08-27 00:45:29 UTC

Ryan Kam keep shouting in class
i told him to stop shouting
he stopped shouting

Albert Lin (2)

2024-08-27 00:46:07 UTC

Intro: Flashback
Who: My friend that I met in a GEP tuition when I was in Primary 3. We have been friends for 3 years
What is the disagreement about: We were arguing about spending time with his new friends from Primary School as I thought they were a bad influence. They were spending too much time on video games and they evntually influenced him into joining them. I did not want him to get addicted so I told him to not interact as much with his friends. However, he wanted to remain friends with them and we got into a fight.
What did you do to resolve: I recommended that he could hang out with his friends but he shouldn't get addicted to gaming. He also agreed with my recommendation.
We still remained as friends and he eventually decided to stop talking all together to his friends.

Ryan Kam (24)

2024-08-27 00:46:25 UTC

football intro - flashback/anecdote
Who was involved? my classmate Travis
I managed to tackle him as he was dribbling and he fell down and said it was a foul but everyone even his own teammates said it wasn't a foul and started fighting
We ended up arguing whether it was a foul or not but then an idea crossed my mind and we asked the teacher who was watching us play whether it was a foul or not as he was also the teacher in charge of the school's football team.
He said that it was not a foul and told us to play on

Tan Xuan Wei(28)

2024-08-27 00:46:30 UTC

-one day,i was cleaning out the attic as would soon be moving to a new house. While i was looking through one of the boxes,i saw a letter. When i opened it, it brought back waves of memories...

-my mother had always been close to me however one thing led to another and caused a major rift between us one day

-the disagreement is about when my mother promised to buy a new iphone if i scored full marks for my math exam.However,since she was single as our dad passed on, she lived paychck to paycheck and asked me to wait till the next month.at that time i did not understand how poor we were so ii was mad and thought my mother broke her promise and i didn't even eat the food she prepared for dinner. She was disappointed in herself and ended up regretful of herself

-after sulking for a while,i realized how much my mother cared for me and how poor we were.i told her that i was sorry and gave her a letter with a heartfelt apology that i wrote to her.i writing the letter that it didn't matter whether she gave me the phone and as my studies were supposed to be my responsibility and i reconciled with her. She cried tears of joy and embraced me in a bear hug.

-from that day onwards we were even closer and i vowed to never be angry to my mother due to such a petty thing ever again and i would always value her more than any monetary possession in the whole world.

Isaac Kwan (13)

2024-08-27 00:46:46 UTC

Staring at Ryan's cold expression, I couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret for what I had done. Did I really have to go this far?
Ryan and I became good friends as we had sat next to each other at the beginning of school due to our register numbers. When I realized how kind and friendly he was, I gradually warmed up to him. We continued to stay on good terms even when we shifted seats.
During class, Ryan was loudly talking to another classmate, for a good half of the lesson. As it disrupted my concentration, I was naturally annoyed. Many classmates also became annoyed at this situation, and someone even asked the teacher to send him outside as punishment.
When the rest of us, voiced our agreement, including me, the teacher sent him out. Ryan raised his hands in protest and looked at me and the others with a betrayed expression. He eventually accepted it and walked out with a stormy face. In the heat of the moment, I had impulsively voted him out of the classroom.
Afterwards, he was cold to me and the others that had voted him out. It must have felt bad to be stabbed in the back by your classmates that you consider friends. After putting myself in his shoes, I knew that I would definitely feel angry too. I decided to give him some time to cool off, and apologize to him next week, in hopes that he would hear me out after the weekend. This worked and we have resolved to continue be friends. This close call that nearly lead me to losing a valuable friendship has taught me to be patient and not act impulsively, for I may come to regret my actions.

Dylan Koh 6

dylan_koh_1_1 — 2024-08-27 00:47:08 UTC

Intro - poor marks for literature, feel a sense of regret as I thought about what had happened.
His name is Elson.
Argued with him over which scenes to do for the literature group project. We did not talk to each other for some time. I researched and found that he was correct
Finally, we met up and I apologised to him. We were able to resolve the argument and decide what to do but we started extremely late and were unable to finish it on time.
In the end, we patched things up but we got poor marks for our literature group project.

Register 17 Lavitran

2024-08-27 00:47:54 UTC

1: Intro- Football disagreement

2: I had the disagreement with Issac Kwan, my classmate.

3: It is about how Issac Kwan was being too rough.

4: We slowly talked about how he could improve and be less rough.

5: He listened to us and improved

Wong Jiale(33) 1C

2024-08-27 00:49:02 UTC

Introduction

Saw my football and I felt nostalgic and had a flashback

Body paragraph 1
I had the disagreement with my best friend during a football match in school with my classmates

Body paragraph 2

In the middle of the match, my friend nutmeg (dribbling the football through the legs of the opponents)me and I got angry and humiliated then I chased him down and two-footed (sliding someone from behind very aggressively)him from behind and resulting in him twisting his ankle and he had to go to the hospital.

Body paragraph 3

I felt very remorseful and went to the hospital every day after school and also used my savings to pay for his medical fees .

Resolution

In the end he was discharged in a week and he forgave me and we became friends again. Suddenly voice shouted :"James It is time for dinner" jolted me back to reality making me feel relieve that I resolve the disagreement .

keefe 21

2024-08-27 00:49:53 UTC

1 flashback

2 close friend name john

3 was wushu group competition. thought we did very well and everything was perfect but we got 4th just barely. i watched the recording and realise it was all because of john who made a mistake. additionally, he was not able to keep up with the speed of the choreography after he made the mistake, thus causing us to lose points. in the heat of the moment i got very angry at him. started blaming him as it was my last year in primary school and that was the only ccategory that i did not have a trophy in. as if a wall was erected we started drifting apart. later on, i realised that i also made quite a lot of mistakes and i was probably the one to blame in this situation.

4 i apologised to him and started helping him out in his routines and how to improve, giving constructive feedback and guiding him where he needed

5 in the end though we weren't as close as last time we became friends againand helped each other

Rehan Fernando

2024-08-27 00:50:04 UTC

Intro- My friend was shouting at me for his money back and he pushed me.
His name is Mohammed Rehaan, who has a very short temper.
I had borrowed money from him but misplaced it and went back to him to borrow more.
I apologized to him and returned his money the next day.
We resolved the argument and didn't fight again

Aden Goh (1)

2024-08-27 00:51:49 UTC

1-Introduction-Noise complaint, neighbour, living next door

2- Argue with my friend that lives next to me

3- I made a lot of noise while playing games at night that kept waking him up while he was sleeping and he kept on waking up late and was also unable to study at night

-he got bad results for his exams and blamed me for it

4-I apologised for my mistake and told him i would lower my volume

-He did not accept my apology and started to ignore me

5-I got very upset about how he reacted and eventually he realised as well and we decided to make up by going out for lunch together

Russell Chew

2024-08-27 00:53:09 UTC

my brother was playing music loudly in his room
i was mad and i went into thee room to tell him to lower it
he did not want to lower it we started arguing and i almost started fighting with him
in the end the music was turned off but we were mad at each other for the whole day
after awhile we were not mad anymore and were back to being happy again

Kenneth Lim (15) [1C]

2024-08-27 01:11:39 UTC

1. Intro :

- Feel sense of nostalgia whenever I see my classmate

- Reminds me of our disagreement

- [flashback]

2. Who :

- Close classmate called Bob

- Always play basketball together

3. The disagreement :

- One day, saw his basketball skills, and made fun of him in front of friends just for fun

- Bob took it seriously and then we started arguing, and then Bob landed a blow on me, so we started fighting

- Finally ended fighting when we saw a teacher walking by

4. Restore relationship :

- I took the initiative to apologise to him first out of guilt

- He also apologised to me

5. Reflection :

- What may be funny to be might not be funny to others due to differing opinions and even the mood the person was in that day

Elson(7)

2024-08-27 14:02:30 UTC

Intro- literature group work, flash back,

Who is the 'close person' that you have disagreement with.

A close group of friends in my group named john. We joined together to form our literature group for our project

What is the disagreement?

I forgot to bring the prop then because i didn't want to get blame so I put the blame on john then everyone else blame him
he got really sad and just left us there without anything to film with.
The next day he just ignored me for the entire day. I tried to reason with hm but then we started a big fight and cause a lot of commotion and then our friends had to pull us for us apart.

What did I do to resolve the situation?

My friends came to me and told me that it was my fault that this situation happened and that I should apologize to the john.
I went up to john to apologize for having the disagreement even though it was mine fault I should not have place the blame on john in the first place.

In the end we became friends again although we could not save our literature group project, I was glad that we could save our relationship.