▶ Your Answer : People's intellectual, social, and personal development is highly influenced by advices from friends. With this understanding, I believe that it is important for people to get advice from their peers than friends who are older. This is because getting advice from peers enables them to strengthen relationships with peers while getting advice from older friends can be replaced.
First, getting advice from older friends can be replaced. Interestingly, a renowned social scientist in South Korea published an article in "The Korean Herald" which claims that advice from friends who are older can be replaced. The article claims that 72 percent of 200 Koreans believe that getting advice from their parents is more valuable than advice from older friends. My own experience also demonstrates some of the advantages of advice from parents. In order to stay in shape, I joined a local gym and exercised very hard after work. However, due to strenuous workout, I felt really tired at my office. My father gave advice that relaxing is most important part in a life, then I changed my routine. this advice from my father was really helpful to me. From my experience, I learned that getting advice from older friends can be replaced by advice from parents.
On the other hand, getting advice from peers enables people to strengthen relationships with peers. Understanding the importance of relationships with friends and the potential role of advice from peers is necessary to substantiate this view. Getting advice from peers provides meaningful opportunities for people to connect with their friends. Essentially, talking about their problems frankly and getting advice each other promote activities that encourage people to openly interact with one another. People can get proper advices from peers because people tend to tell only their friends about their problems candidly. Such intercommunication builds a platform not only to mingle with peers but also to understand each other more deeply, allowing people to become more socially aware.
To sum up, I believer that it is important for people to get advice from their peers than friends who are older. Consequently, the importance of my view cannot be underestimated for the reasons I have mentioned above.
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