The bset way to learn about life is by listening to the advice of friends and family. Do you agree or disagree? |
When someone is in hardship, a good advice could be the best solution. Especially, most people are likely to have a chance to listen it from their friends or family because they are usually near those people. However, it should not be accepted that their advices are always good for learning life. I believe that people could learn about life from their experiences or books. Although they give lots of good advice(uncountable), learning life are up to person’s mind who is longing for learning about it. First of all, friends’ or family’s advice is not always good for us. When we need well balanced(objective) opinion, they may give us a biased opinion because they are connected with us emotionally. For instance, my mother is always trying to give me encouragement, so she usually praise me about something what I did even if it is trivial. It, of course, has given me some positive influences. However, it also has serious a side effect that it has make me not to do my best because this made me overestimate. Moreover, we may make mar choice or misunderstand their advice. When I had to choose my major before entering the university, she gave me advice what I choose. As a result that I followed her opinion, I had been regret my choice for a few years because it did not mach my aptitude. Reviewing this example, the critical mistake of choosing wrong major is that I follow her advice without any criticism because I want her to be happy as I follow her opinion. Secondly, there are many source to teach us what is life. Although, our friends or family may give us the best advice for me, it may be useless unless we listen carefully what they really talk to us. However, even if we read a book or experience something, it can be the greatest advice for us to learn about life. To enlarge this point of view, we can see that anything can be source for us to learn when we really want to learn it. For example, going abroad for studying English became a good chance for me to learn about life. While I was doing everything by myself, I can learn about independence which made me stronger than before and it changed my life. From this example, we can see that life can be learn from limitless sources. To summarize, to learn about life, friends or family’s advise may be a good source. However, emotional connection to them can make us mistakes. The most important thing is that enthusiasm to learn about life. If this is possible, everything can be a good source for us to learn about life. Thus, I don’t agree the statement that the best way to learn about life is by listening to the advice of friends and family. |