There is ongoing debate over what facts are important to become friends. Some people might say that common traits and interests play an important role for building bond with each other. However, on the contrary, I believe that even if two have nothing to share, it is still possible for them to become friends. The fundamental rationale behind is that many people tend to be attracted to those who have different personality, and meeting variety version of people is much beneficial to a individual than meeting people who are very similar to one.
First of all, individuals easily get interested to those who have something different from them. This is largely because of curiosity, which is usually evoked by something new, that drive people to want to know about others. For example, when it comes to married couples, there are rare cases that both have same features or interests, and they tend to get bored to each other if they are very similar to one another. Besides there are many cases that people even from a lot of countries become friends. They would have different religion, perspective of view, backgrounds, and also races. However, even for me, I have some foreign friends and I don't feel any odd feeling toward them. They are just my friends. Therefore, even two people are from opposite world, they can still be friends.
On top of that, having different types of friends is much beneficial than friends who share common things. The fundamental reason behind this is that they can improve themselves by making up for each other's drawbacks and broaden their interests. For instance, there is a film named 'The cure' which depicts two dissimilar boys who become friends. In this movie, one boy has a AIDs and the other boy is normal and has a adventurous spirit. However, the normal boy has a problem with his family, otherwise the kids with ailment has a mom who cares him a lot. It seems that they can never be friends, but surprisingly by complementing each other; normal boy feels the warmth of mother, and sick kid learns challenging through his company, they get close. This example shows that it's not the problem of how much they are alike, but how much each can complement each other with their virtue that builds strong bonds between two people. |