The best way to learn about life is by listening to the advice of friends and family. |
In this fast changing world, our ego and characteristics have been stronger than ever before. This is because if we do not have any color and voice in our society, we are likely to loose the competition in our real world. Therefore many people want to believe and follow his decision rather than listening opinions from other people. However, I think advice, especially from my close friends or family, is so important for our lives. The reasoning behind this is that they have objective opinions, while we are subjective in terms of doing activity, and some of them, parents or uncles, have more experiences in our lives, giving valuable information. To begin with, our friends or family offer us more objective opinion when it comes to our private matter, because they are the people who know us very well. Sometimes we are apt to loose our mind, because of the missing belief in our work. In other words, we do not hear other people's opinion, at some time, because we think we always have right decision. To illustrate, after finishing my military service, I started to have small business to sell Korean style foods in my country. But many of my friends were strongly against my idea, because they thought that the items were not brilliant to sell customers for my business, which was out-dated style. Even though I recognized that, I had already invested a lot of time and money for that small restaurant, I believed my voice. Unfortunately, my voice was on the wrong side, and I thought that if I had carefully heard my friends' opinions, I would have avoided my failure. In addition, some of my friends are family have more experiences than that we have in our lives. They have already had similar problems when they were similar age. My father, for example, gave me a lot of tips, when I decided to go to University. At that time, I wondered that which University and department was the right choice for my future. In terms of this matter, my father talked about his experience and the things that our society needed. After I discussed that matter with him, I was able to broaden my eye to the real society; thus I decided to join Environment Engineering department, which helped me to enjoy studying it and to find the job. Thanks to his valuable information, I could easily get on the right tract on my life. In conclusion, I strongly believe that listening advice from our friends and family is the best way in order to go through our lives. This is because they have more objective view points and give us valuable information as seniors who have more experience in our lives. |