주제 : 자신과 비슷한 친구보다 다른 친구를 사귀는 것이 낫다.
Making friends are vital for every people.
Some people might prefer to possess friends whose characteristic is similar to
himself or herself. However, I strongly believe it is better to befriend with
people who have different ideas or personalities. This is because people can
enhance capacity of adapting into arbitrary group and can enrich spectrum of
social experience.
To begin with, ability to build stable social
status can be increased by putting effort to maintain relationship with friends
having diverse characteristics. Specifically, since our society consists of
many people with diverse personalities, one should know how to keep amiable
relationship with various friends. When compared to maintaining friends similar
with oneself, people who have friends with distinct characteristics are more
likely to build stable social status. For example, one of my high school friends
only preferred to friends who are able to play soccer as himself. At first he
seems to get along within a sports group. But after he graduated, he had hard
time making further friends since majority of his colleagues did not like
exercising. By limiting range of friends, one might have difficulty building
additional social relationship so cannot keep one’s social status .
Furthermore, people can have a wide
range of experience if they have diverse spectrum of friends. People with
different personalities have different personal tastes such as hobby, favorite
traveling place, etc. Hence, by spending time with diverse friends, one can travel
many places, take part in many other activities. For example, my superior is
friendly person who has friends with diverse backgrounds. When the weekend
begins, his schedule is full of activities such as soccer club, saxophone
class, and learning programming language. Each of these activities are done
with distinct groups. The case of my superior illustrates that by being part of
various social groups, one can enrich range of experience
To sum up, people have to put effort
to be in diverse social group, consisting to people with diverse
characteristics. Spending time with various friends would be advantageous in
terms of stable social relation and broad range of experience. These two
advantages both enhances quality of life and this impact cannot be overestimated.