"Opposites attract" is definitely true when it comes to daily life and the people in my life. Some people may insist that with friends who are similiar to them they can have more fun time together. However, I firmly say that friends who are dissimilar to you would add diversity to your life. Furthermore, by spending time with them people can develop social skills.
First of all, friends who have different characteristic, hobbies and tastes can add diversity to my life. There is no doubt that I would experience exactly whole new world through them. For personal experience, when I was attending university in Korea, I accidently met people who was big fan of extreme sports such as rock climbing and sky diving. I used to be inactive person so I hate those kind of demanding and dangerous sports. However, by hanging out with those friends and started to understanding their hobbies and what they are interested in, I could enjoy that sort of sports activities. If it were not for their help, I would definitely live a sedentary life by being glued to a computer all day long and hate to excercise. Thanks to their influence, I lost considerable amount of my weight. Therefore, it is preferable to spend time with friends who are different from me.
Additionally, people can develop social skills by getting along with friends with different perspectives toward life. This is especially true because people would learn how to understand and admit others viewpoints which are different in many ways. Study shows that people with dissimilar friends go through expanded perspectives. This is mainly due to the fact that friends influence them a lot than any other concerns, especially with different point of view that are totally contrary to their own. This means that different friends could encourage people to widen their knowledge of specific things and broaden their minds to understand each other. Consequently, it is good to get along with friends who are dissimilar from you.
To conclude, I choose to have different friends than similar friends with me because they would bring my life a diversity of new experiences and develop my interpersonal social skills. On the whole, friends whatever their personality is opposites indeed attract each other. |