I disagree with the statement that letting a friend make a mistake is better than taking action that risks destroying a friendship.
To begin with, I think people have to protect their friend's interest. If people think they are really sincere friend to their friends, people should prevent friend from doing misbehaior or mistake. By doing this, friend's personality or interest can be guaranteed from gossips or other things. For example, my friend, Su-min and I went to birthday party of other friend last winter. Since the weather was very cold, so Su-min drank a lot of beer to warm her body, and at last, she was drunken. She kept vomiting in the toilet, and she tried to drive her car to go to home. However, I couldn't let her drive at night so I drove her car and took her home. If I had let her do whatever she wanted, she could have had a huge accident.
In addition, friendship would be strengthen if friend knows his or her friend's real intention. Eventhough a person who got help from his or her friend, might feel embarrased or upset by the friend's action at first, they will soon realize that the friend's action was not to distract her or his friend, but to help the friend. In previous example, my friend Su-min also got angry when she woke up in the next morning because she thought that I just drove her car without her permission. However, after she heard the truth from other friends went to the birthday party, she apologized to me and she really thanked to me not to mention that our friendship have more strengthened.
To sum up, friend should take an action for his or her friend eventhough it is risky. This is because friend should protect the friend's interest and this can lead strong friendship. |