▶ Your Answer :
Some people think that it is possible to entirely be honest with friends. However, in my opinion, I think that it is infeasible to completely be truthful with friends. This is because people usually tell lies to cover their flaws, and because they tell white lies to friends to make their friends feel better.
To begin with, many people lie to their friends to hide their shortcomings. To be specific, we usually do not tell real facts of family relations or physical secrets to keep our attraction and reputation high. For example, when I was in primary school, my almost every friends knew about 'DIGIMON', which is a famous Japanese cartoon. However, I did not know anything about that, and I did not want to be disesteemed or ignored by other friends. Therefore, I pretended to understand everything what they said, and even told them some wrong facts about the cartoon. If I had not told my friends lies, I would have not kept good relationships. This example clearly demonstrates that lie is an usual to hide drawbacks from friends.
On top of that, many people lie to their friends to prevent their friends feel bad. In other words, if we tell friends some truth, they will feel angry at us, and may do not want to keep relationship. Therefore, people prefer to tell some white lies, even though there are some mistake that we can point out. For instance, just few days ago, one of my friends bought new clothes and showed those to me. To be honest, I thought those clothes are extremely ridiculous, but I told him the clothes are perfect for him because I did not want him to feel angry at me. If I had told him that his clothes are funny, he would has stopped to be my friend. This example clearly shows sometimes lie is necessary to keep good relationship.
To sum up, people usually tell lies to cover their shortcomings, and make friends feel better. For these reasons, I believe that it is unable to completely be honest with friends. |