"Lend your money lose your friend"
Rejection to a favour asked by a friend can be a difficult thing to do on the spot especially when it involves money. However, as the idiom suggests burrowing money from a friend contains a possibility to harm or damage the friendship due to one's greed and a lack of recognition of punctuality between friends.
First of all, human's greed of wealth and prospect has no limits to the point one can easily forsake a close relationship between the friends. This is essentially derived from materialistic society that makes people live by the saying "money talks." News and articles on a prevalent topic which describes court cases between friends due to money problems is often heard. During the suit, friends who were once shared the same memories and cared about each other, end up possessing grudge, distrust and a sense of betrayal against each other. This case is depressing and melancholic to notice and discover that human's greed dominates the sense of connection and friendship that are kept over a long time.
Moreover, when burrowing money from a friend, people are inclined to ignore the importance of punctuality and responsibility of repayment. This is because there is not any detailed contract of specific deadline or consequences if one does not pay back in time. Also, designing the contract can imply a sense that a person who is lending the money is stingy, and harsh. An awkward relationship can be resulted even between friends who have known each other for a sufficient time. One of surveys conducted by sociology class in a college reveals that about 35% of students have experiences of not paying money back or not receiving the money that was lent to the friend. This survey ultimately supports the idea of people's disposition of low awareness of punctuality among friends.
All things considered, people should decide with discretion to form a financial interaction between friends due to the risk of deterring the relationship. Realisation of one's intrinsic greed and prevention of lousiness of punctuality can only decrease a chance to end the friendship.
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