▶ Your Answer :
Undoubtedly,
friendship plays a significant role in people’s daily lives in many of the
places where they play or work. Some people think that old friends should be
kept even though they do what we hate while others do not. Both sides have
their own reasons to support their views. If I were asked to choose one, I
would say that friendship with old friends do not need to be always maintained.
There are several reasons as follows.
To begin with, keeping
obsolete friendship can deteriorate people’s mental performance when their friend engages
in something they do not like. If someone is involved in a behavior what people
hate and people keep their relationship, they are under pressure and get a
great deal of stress. Breaking up such friendship is likely to release their bodies
tension caused by such stress. For example, when my sister was in high school,
she often felt depressed thinking that her life became an exhausting routine. One
of her classmates, she had met him five years ago, made fun of her every day in
class, but she did not like this behavior. However, to keep such long-standing relationship with
him, she just did not take any action. Fortunately, she was able to deal with
such pressure by break this friendship. She told him that she did not want to
be made fun of, and finally, break the relationship with him. Also, after that,
she talked and mingled only with other friends that did not what she disliked
to avoid stress. By doing this, she was able to let off some steam. If she had
still preserve this relationship, she would not have been able to relieve her stress.
All things
considered, the disadvantages of keeping old friendship far outweigh its advantages
for the reasons I have mentioned above. All in all, the importance of old
friend cannot be overestimated in the pursuit of happiness in life.
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