▶ Your Answer : Every single individual in today's society possess unique viewpoints and opinions of all subjects. Thanks to the development in technology, information is widely available and accessible to the public. Friends, and teachers, are may be the two large resources where we get our advices and information. And some people think that teachers are more influential than friends because teachers are someone who teach us. However, in my eyes, friends are more influential when it comes to our life. And here are my reasons why I think so. To begin with, we spend more time with our friends, not our teachers. With friends we share every stories and secrets. Therefore, a friend understands you more than a teacher. Humans are inclined to rely on someone who they believe understand them more. So when it comes to difficult situation and problems, we are likely to look for a friend's help, not tutor’s. For instance, when my mom and I fought, my heart was broken. When my teacher heard about the story, she only criticized me since she only viewed the situation in adult's view. However, my friend Soyeon comprehended how I feel and gave me real consolation. Moreover, she also gave me a good resolution to end up the cold situation because she also had had similar experience with her mother. This example shows that how friends can be very helpful since we spend our time together and know each other very well. Furthermore, there is an idiom, "peer pressure," which shows how pressures from peers are undeniable. People, not only teenagers, always worry about how others would think about themselves. For instance, most individuals have an experience about nagging their parents for unnecessary cloth or accessories, since our friends possess them. A friend's influence is very strong, due to the fact that we expect our peers to think us nice and cool. In conclusion, as a student, we get a lot of advices from our teachers. We ask them how can we design a better future or how can we go a prestigious university. And get education, of course. But I still firmly believe we get more influence from our friends, since they are who we communicate for most of our time and who we puts more emphasize on.
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