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Opinions
differ over whether being completely honest with friends would be possible or
not. However, if I asked to choose one stance, I would say that I think it is
hard to be always honest with friends. I will further elaborate on my stance
using two main ideas below.
To begin with,
sometimes honest saying would hurt feelings of friends. In other words, white lie
can prevent my friends from being hurt and be helpful to develop good
relationship. There are numerous examples to support my idea and among them, this
representative case shows that why I assert it. When I was in a high school, I
had a lot of friends in my student’s club. Especially, one of my friends whose
name was ‘su-ji’ was so humorous and nice. However, she asked me about her fashion
style one day, and I answered with honesty. I thought she would accept my
comments because she was a nice person. On the other hand, she was really hurt
by my comments and ended up breaking the relationship with me. This shows that being
too honest would ruin the relationships as well as hurt other’s feeling. If I had not been too honest, I would have had a close relationship with her.
On top of
that, friends should give some words of comfort even though it is a lie. There
are a lot of people who can criticize my friends such as teachers and parents.
This means that people need friends who can comfort them and this can be a
motivation to be success. For example, when I was in a university, one of my
friends wanted to drop his school because he wanted to be a singer. A lot of
people around him said that it would be foolish judgement and I thought same as
well. However, I lied to my friend to encourage my friend that it would be a
perfect decision because it was important for you to do what you like to do. With
my words, he could relieve his stress and concentrate on singing songs. Also,
he could become a famous singer in Korea. This means that white lie can be helpful for friend's success. If I had not lied to him, he would be
fallen behind.
In conclusion, I have a firm
belief that it is difficult to be always honest with friends. First, honest
saying can hurt their feelings, and second, people need words of comfort from
their friends even if it is a lie. |