It is often said that one of the most important qualities of good friends is sense of humor.
However, it is better to have a intelligent friend rather than to have a humorous friend.
This is because; people can get advice from smart friend and would compete with them.
To begin with, intelligent friend can provide solutions when people face quandaries.
Of course, funny friend could decrease their friend's stress level. However, although they
could let their friend feel relaxed, they can not provide specific way to overcome predicaments,
which intelligent friend could give. Therefore, intelligent friends are essential to go
through one's life. For example, when I was in high school, I was behind my school works.
I had spent so many times for my part-time job to earn money for tuition. I asked my friend
kyoung seop, who was most intelligent in the school, for help. He said to me that I have to
study hard instead of doing part-time job, than their could be the ways to pay my tuition
such as scholarship or donation from patrons. I just followed his opinion and studied hard.
Eventually, I got into the university with full 4 years of scholarship.
In addition, people could compete with their clever friends. It is common that
people usually want to do better job than people around them. Thus, intelligent friends
would make them work hard. For instance, I was not good at my mathematics in the high school.
but my best friend was taking honored class for application mathematics. I was so shame that I
studied really hard, I slept 3 or 4 hours a day to join the honored class. Finally I entered
the class.
In brief, for the reasons that I can ask for advice from clever friends and could compete with
them, it is better to have a smart friend than have a funny friend. I strongly recommend you to be
a smart friend rather than to be a friend, who has sense of humor, of your friends. |