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We always have some arguments between to keep old friends and to make new friends. The best way is doing both activities but our time and everything not allow us to do so. If I have to choose one of two, I definetly choose the latter one. Because our lives keep changing every moment and keeping old friends sometimes waste of time and money.
To start with, my life has been changing so far and so on. The meaning of friends is diverse but I believe that friends must be helpful. So friends who I fit in is different depending on my situation. To be specific, when I was young, I need friends who can play with me. When I was a student, I need friends who can study with me. Now, I am working so I need friends who works at the field I involved. It sounds too cold, but I think it is the fact. A person who are in the same situation with me can totally understand me and share emotions with me. In my case, old friends who studied together in highschool are all in different fields. We have a limitation to understand one another because we do not know the actual situation each one pust on. But new friends are work at the same field with me so they understand my situation well and advise me properly when I have some problems.
On top of that, from some perspectives, we have to waste much time and money to keep old friends. When it comes to the efficiency, making new friends is more reasonable than keeping old ones. Because old friends usually live far away. If we want to gather or meet up, we have to schedule a specific date and spend much money to move. But new friends are normally live nearby our places. We can hang out whenever we want and it does not cost to move. For example, I have two old friends. We met when we were in highschool, at that time we were easy to meet up and hung out everywhere. After we graduated from highschool, we all lived different places because of the location of university. We tried to gather and hang out together but it has always been failed because of the distance problem. One of them even lived in a Brazil so it costs alot to take a plane.
In a nutshell, we need a different kind of friend with living and keeping old friends costs too much time and money. In this regard, I firmly believe that making new friends is more important than keeping old friends. |