It is more valuable to receive advice from older friends than from those in the same age. A/D agree로 썼어요. |
It is often said that receiving advice from older friends is better than from those of same age. Some people might disagree with this statement because friends in the same age seem to have many things in common. However, I strongly support that opinions from older friends are more valuable because they have more experience and better interpersonal skills.
To begin with, older friends have a long-term view of life. Of course, friends in the same age seem to be more understanding as they are of similar situations. However, this does not help much because they view life from the same set of eyes. Therefore, advice from older friends with many experiences is more beneficial than opinions from those of the same age. For example, when I was a freshman in college, I worked part-time jobs hard throughout the first semester. Thus, when the vacation began, I wanted not only to have a fun, but also to save money and study for next semester. My friends of the same age persuaded me to take a trip to Europe with them by telling me that I need to relieve stress. In contrast, a four-year older friend proposed me to study with his study team during the vacation, and he told me that he had had really hard time because of his careless days in his early academic years and why I had to save money and to prepare for my future career. This was very persuading. Therefore, I won a scholarship and had more easy time for the second semester.
In addition, older friends have better developed social skills than that of the same age. This is because they have been exposed to more people and situations. Thus, their advice enables us to solve problems with others. To be specific, when I was a sophomore in high school, I had a girlfriend who really loved to go parties and hang out with many boyfriends. Since I was so serious about her, I tried to stop her going parties with other boyfriends and to focus more on her study and me. However, we always argued every time I talked about this. My friends in the same class simply advised me to break up with her because she did not mind me. On the other hand, after listening to my story, one of my old friends pointed out that I had problems with the ways to express my thought and that the emotional words from me made her upset. Also, he suggested that I had to show how much I love her first and that I carefully discussed the issues with her. Thanks to such valuable advice, we were able not only to recover the relationship, but also to become more serious about each other.
In brief, I firmly believe that older friends provide more essential advice than friends in the same age do because of their intuition of life and interpersonal know-how. That is why most people discuss their difficulties with senior people and respect older people. The importance of opinions from older friends cannot be underestimated.
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