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In magnetic field, the same magnetic poles cannot be put together. However, the opposite magnetic poles strongly attract each other. Many people believe this is the same case in making friends that it is better to have friends who are different from them. Yet, I believe human relationships are totally different with the magnet case. In another word, similar people go together well and in some cases, it is better than making different people as a friend. Since having a friend who is similar with me can help me finding out my own weaknesses. Also, I can avoid facing many conflicts deriving from making a friend who is different with me.
To start with, unlike others who agree that making friends with different personality is better than having relationship with similar people, I believe that friends who can share many similarities with me are much better. This is because a friend that has similar personality enables me to discover my flaws and fix them out by myself based on my findings. My personal experience, as an example, I had a friend who is very positive, easy-going and active. When I was friend with her, I could only see my strengths and my great virtues from her flaws and weaknesses. Thus, comparing myself with her, I thought I am far better than her. However, when I met a person who shares so many things in common, I started to face me directly. From her, I could see my negative sides which I considered as a “great virtues” before. As a result, I had a chance to know more about my hided personality by having a friend who is similar with me.
On top of that, the reason why I agree that having similar person as my friend is much better is that there will be less conflict between me and my friend. What I mean by this is that since I share many things in common with my friend, I can avoid doing things that will make him or her unhappy. To illustrate this point, my younger sister had a hard time dealing with conflict she had with her friend who is different from her. Whenever she came from school, she seemed so stressed out that she did not talk much or eat properly but just went to bed. Fortunately, when she moved to high school, she met a new friend, from whom she found many things alike. She said she could guess how her friend would think and feel in advance due to the similar personality. As a result, she enjoyed going to school and carried that happiness with her when returning home.
To sum up, I strongly support the idea that friends from whom I can find many similarities with me are better than friends who are different with me. This is because I can fix out my flaws and also I don’t have to make my days tough by cope with conflicts. On the whole, friends can make our life full of happiness but also hard. It is depend on what kind of friend we make, how our life would become.
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