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People tend to think that the
people who have the similar personality to them are easy to get along with.
However, I recently realized that friends who are quite different from me give
me benefits a lot. I would explain in further detail below.
First of all, it is exciting to
glancing totally different lives from me and sometimes it motivates me to live
adventurously. Viewing the lives that I cannot expect in my daily lives is good
to refresh the tiresome mind due to mundane routines. Also, sometimes those
different life style inadvertently suggest me to take adventures to try
something new and interesting. For example, when it comes to leisure activities,
I used to come up with only somethings passive and calm such as reading books
or visiting movie theater. However, my new friend who I met when I entered the
company and who has the opposite personality from me – although I am a quiet
person, he is very lively- asked me to live more actively enjoying physical
activities such as surfing or water skiing. Before this, I just thought that those
types of radical exercises are far from me but the friend continuously suggested
me to experience those. Finally, when we went for the surfing trip, I totally
fell in love with water skiing. I, now, appreciate for the friend who
introduced me an entirely new life.
Additionally, aside from the
excitement of the observing of new life, getting along with different friends
let us train ourselves to understand the differences between people and
diversity of the world. This is very important because when we get a job in the
society, we must spend most of our daytime with the people who are not only
similar to us but also very different from us. If we are not well prepared in
getting along with various people, we will have difficult times in the
workplaces but we will be never allowed to choose the business partners or
colleagues. For instance, when I just get a job, it was so difficult to
understand and accept those absurd behaviors of others. Then, I reminded when I
met the new friends in the school. After getting along with many different
classmates for long time, I could realize that the others’ behaviors that I did
not like are not actually wrong but somewhat different from my philosophy.
After getting this learning in my mind, I could see the good points of the
friends and we had precious time together. This could help a lot in my early
days in my workplaces as well. When I tried to apply the learning from my
school years to the people I hardly understood and hardly liked in my job. Then
little by little I could understand the reasons why they behave in their own ways
and could understand their circumstances. Now, I get along with almost all the
colleagues in my work place and I appreciate for the early lesson that I
obtained from my classmates.
To sum up, knowing and getting
along with diverse friends are advantageous in our lives. Sometimes their new
life style gives us the opportunity to try something entirely new in our days.
Also, they let us to grasp the structure of diversity in the world and let us know
how to harmonize with the different people in the world.
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