It is
often said that having friends who are analogous to you is best way to meet
good friend. Some people might agree this agreement because playing friends
with similar personality is easy to feel sense of unity. Yet, after closer
inspection, I firmly believe that the advantage of getting along with those different
you far outweigh to disadvantage of. This is because people can associate with person
of a large number of fields and experiences what can’t be experienced previously.
To begin with, closer relationship with different
fields people help you break prejudice which you have. People usually have a
biased feeling over some jobs as they don’t know well or experience it previously.
But, by associating with different group, they are able to have good impression
and break a wall of prejudice. For example, when I was exchange student in USA,
I joined sport club to make a fresh friends. And then, I met a group that had a
hobby that was extreme sports. At first I thought that extreme sport usually
did those who were reckless in life. After that, I took part in cocktail party
with them and hung out. As I met them, I more and more exchanged and confessed my
feeling by talking with them about love, dream, careers path and their hobby. After
all, I could break my biased feeling and participated in extreme sport club
meeting. (If I had not met those friends, I might have had prejudice about
them.)
In addition, having friends who are different
from you positively affect diverse experiences. When we met those friends, we
couldn’t do even wider range of things because of dreading new fields and not
enough expertise. Although getting along with similar to you enable to feel convenience,
people aren’t able to find their potential and aptitude as changes and new
experience is mother of creativeness that is essential factor to succeed modern
society. For example, I mistakenly register a class about romanticism music at
one time regardless of my major, Politics. I should see romanticism music
performance that I have never seen. In the processing of doing assignment, I
could make a friend majoring violin. With her, I spent many time in going
performance and eating dinner with famous performer. From this experience, now
I am interested in classical music and I have been collecting music CD such as Beethoven
and Tchaikovsky.
In brief, we had better meet various fields of
people. This is mainly due to the fact that this relationship helps our
breaking a prejudice and experience new thing. While meeting person of different
fields isn’t easy to get along with, we must not underestimate value of
associating them. |