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Some people think that it is better to have friends who are similar to me. However, in my opinion, I prefer to have friends who are not similar to me. This is because they can make me more understandable and I can get various experiences. To begin with, friends who are not similar to me can expand my understading about people. They usually have ideas and perspectives what I do not have. By communicating with them, I can get much information about people and it helps me to understand people. Let me take my experience as an example, I was in highschool as freshman, I only had friends who are similar to me. After one year, I could have more friends who are not like me. By having conversation with them, I realized that there were people who had diverse thoughts in the society. As time passed by, my behavior was changed and I could not judge people with my perspective.
On top of that, I can get various experience by having relationship with friends who are not like me. They usually prefer something that I did not like such as food. So, when I have relationship with them, I can get experiences that are not familiar with me directly or indirectly. Sometimes, some experiences are helpful and make me excited. Let me take my another experience as an example. I like to read books than going on a trip. However, I have many friends who like travels. So, If I want to go traveling, I always ask for information about trip such as locations, attractions and food to my friends and I can get diverse information although I never have seen there. To sum up, I prefer to have friends who are not like me. This is due to the fact that I can be changed into understandable person through my friends and I can get diverse information. |