My friend’s teenage daughter thinks it would be great to make this pact of friendship amongst her galpals and so she is saving up to buy some six of this Pocket Watch Keychain Locket which she will then put photos of her friends and have the keychain engraved with their names.
I remember when I used to be her age and I did almost something similar, except that I didn’t have the budget for it. I decided to make threaded bracelets for thirteen of my best girlfriends and gave it all to them when we graduated from High School. Some twenty or so years later, some of us still have that threaded bracelet, while the others forgot that there ever was one. I’m hoping that my daughter’s friends would be able to keep their keychains for that long too.
Pacts of friendship is really very common among teenagers because this is the time when they feel that they are accepted and that they do belong to a peer group that “gets” who and how they are. It seems trivial if you think about it, because people change over the years, but for that moment, for that one special time, you do believe that your friendship would last forever.
Have you done pacts with some of your close friends in high school?