Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Letting a friend make a mistake is better than saying or doing something that would destroy the friendship.
Is justifiable to leave a friend to just make their mistakes? Some students believe this is correct because they are scared of ruining their deep relationship. However I strongly disagree with the latter because within my short yet experienced life time, I believe it is impossible to still gain friendship while leaving a friend making mistakes.
In first place, if I do not alter the mistakes, it would eventually impact me negatively. Since teenagers are vulnerable, they are easily affected by their peers. They easily copy both good and bad behavior of their friends without realizing they are. This means that if we just leave a friend to make mistakes, the friend who was supposed to alter the mistakes, would be copying those errors. There was a research done by Korea Newspaper, which holds the similar view points as mine. By doing an experiment on several teenagers, they were trying to find out if the mistake one friend have made, really spreads to the other. The result was definitely correct, since a lot of slangs and swear word one friend was used was almost immediately used by the other. For instance, one of my friends Tom also went through a similar situation. He had a friend called Sam, who occasionally stole goods from stores. Tom was afraid to tell off Sam because he not only wanted to be looked as childish but also did not want to break his friendship with Sam. In the end, after few months, Tom also had started to snatch materials from the shelves. If he did not have let Sam as he was, Tom too would not have been in jail right now.
In addition to that, the friends could make their bond stronger by telling each other’s mistake. A friend that could both complement and scold is a real friend. A friend that could only say positive things about you gives no benefits because there is no improvement in life. By sharing such positive and negative points on each other, they could build up their friendship stronger than before. My brother is a great example to this. He had a friend called John, who not only praised my brother but also could rebuke him. Even though my brother initially did not like John, my brother was able to change his biggest shortcomings, which is picking his nose. By hearing from John everyday that it is not appropriate to pick ones nose, my brother was able to easily quit his worst habit.
As stated above, there are two main reasons why we should not let a friend be, doing the mistakes. We should try our bests to make that friend to stop making those mistakes for the friend and my sake. To sum up, this would not break the friendship, but it would make it better.