▶ Your Answer :
People become a friend through various ways. Some
might say that people can learn a lot about other people by the friends they
have. In my opinion, however, people cannot learn about other people by the
friends they have. This is mainly because there are many reasons of people
becoming friends, and some people become friends, although they are different
from each other.
First of all, there are various ways of people
becoming as a friend. This is attributable to the fact that many properties can
lead people to become friends. That is, not only pure preference and
inclination but also social factors can affect a person becoming a friend to others.
For example, I always become a friend with all of the students in my class. I got
along a lot with them in school years, so I had a very tight and strong connection
with every single one of them. However, people cannot assume about my characteristics,
behaviors, or personalities by learning about my classmates, because my classmates
and I became friends with each other due to a social boundary called a class. This
indicates that numerous people become friends not because of their similarities
but a sort of social circumstance.
Secondly, there are many friends even though they
are different from each other. For instance, I am a very outgoing type of person,
and I also have very strong political disposition. However, among the three of
my best friends, two of them are very introvert, and they also have very
different point of views on politics compared to my point of views. It will be not
easy for people to learn about me by knowing my best friends. This indicates
that people become friends regardless of the similarities they share with each
other. In a recent statistical study conducted by a research group at the Korea
University revealed that there are no significant relationships between a
friendship and the personalities shared with friends. This illustrates that the
opinion asserting that people tend to build close relationship with people
possessing similar personalities does not make sense at all.
In summary, we become friends with others for
diverse reasons. We may become a friend of someone in a same social boundary. In
addition, there are lots of friends who do not share any personalities in common.
In this regard, I strongly disagree with the idea that people can tell about other
people by their friends.
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