It is generally said that the best way of
learning about life is by listening to advice of family and friends. Some
people might agree with this statement because their experience is realistic as
they already have got over that situations before. However, as far as I am
concerned, I disagree that having a wisdom of life through family and friends’
experiences for a couple of reasons. In this essay, I will clearly show and
develop these two reasons.
First of all, learning about life through
pesonal experiences help you can have your own view and be an independent
human. This is mainly because when someone has something to rely on, he or she
usually tend to be an passive person. Thus, if they face real problem without
any advice, probably a lot of people would get in trouble. To illustrate my
personal experience, when I was a high school student in Korea, I did all
things about school stuffs by myself because I didn’t have any counselor. But
now, I entirely rely on school’s counselor since I came here in United States.
I’ve been helped by counselors in many situations. I think I can’t do anything
without counselor anymore. As you can see, I turned to an exactly passive
person. This is one of the reasons that I support learning from personal cases.
In addition, having their own wisdom of
life makes individual have responsibility. This is possible because people try
to be wiser than when they get some advice from somebody else to avoid regret
what they did. A survey resently released by HRI which is famous research
center about normal life things in Korea shows that about 53% of people answer
that they become more serious than when they don’t have any someone who could
give them advice. This is another reason that I vote for taking the great way
of life by ourselves.
To summerize what I have said until now,
learning about life through personal experiences makes people more independent,
active, and resposible. On the whole, taking some wiseness by ourselves
can’t be underestimated as our life towards to be better individuals.