▶ Your Answer :Families and
friends who have known people well can provide good advices when they are in
trouble. However, the advices from close people might rarely be objective,
because families or friends make a lot of efforts to appease the people rather
than to advise to them. Thus, I believe that people can learn more about life from
firsthand experiences and books. There are some reasons as below.
To begin with, firsthand
experiences can be the best teacher in our lives. It is because experiences
engrave the lessons into people’s mind. The experiences which people went
through in the past last in their minds for a long time. Contrary to firsthand
experiences, although people might feel that they learn something from others
at first, the advices from families or friends might be easy to forget later, For
instance, when I got the driver license in college, my mother always told me
that you should watch out for cars in the roads. At that time, I was not so
much care about what she told. After three years later, however, I had a severe
car accident. From that day, I am always careful of cars in the roads. Thus, I
believe that people can more learn about their lives from firsthand
experiences.
Secondly, books
can provide more valuable lessons to people rather than friends or families. In
general, it is because authors who write books have more diverse experiences in
the past, and it might be helpful for readers to find solutions. Furthermore,
books can provide more objective and realistic lessons about life to people
rather than families or friends. For instance, when I was in college, I
concerned about my career in the future, and my parents recommended to me that
it is better to find jobs which I want. I knew that it was ideal answer, but
for me, finding what I want was quite difficult. However, when I read the self-help
books, I could decide that I would be an economist. Therefore, I believe that
books can provide more worthy and realistic lessons to people.
All in all, families
and friends can be good advisors, but firsthand experiences or books can be
better way to learn about life. It is because people can memorize firsthand
experiences longer than indirect experiences. Also, books can provide more
valuable or realistic lessons to people. Therefore, I believe that firsthand
experiences or books can be the best way to learn about life. |