▶ Your Answer : It is quite clear that making friends are crucial these days. A lot of people, especially middle school and high school students, get along with their peers for a long time. Friends not only sometimes become teachers and adivisors, they give a huge impact on he/she. In this regard, I personally think that keeping friends who are similar to me is great, but I sometimes try to be friends with others who have different characteristics to mine and I have two examples to support my idea. To start with, having friends who are different from me can fix my shortcomings. When I was in elementery school, I had a trouble with a friend who was totally different from me. The way of thinking and acting was not acceptable from my side. However, instead of thinking of her bad side, I tried to learn from her by only thinking of her good side. Few days later, I found out that she was good at stating her own opinion although she was a not attentive listener. At that time, I was a having a trouble of speaking in front of audiences but I was a good listener. I tried to be like her and copied her act. Eventually, I became a good speaker thanks to her. Another example is my cousin. Before he was an elementary student, he was selfish. He did not listen to others rather than his own. However, as the time past by and he became a high school student, he became close with people with various characteristics and opinions. now he embraces other's opinion and try to listen to others. In other words, keeping touch with people who are quite different from him helped him to widen his prospective and widen his horizon. To sum, I do believe that is better to have friends who are different from me because it can become a means of changing my behavior and helping me to broaen my prospective. |