▶ Your Answer : Some
people might think that one cannot learn about a person just by knowing his or
her friends’ type because they are not the same person. However, in my opinion,
one can acknowledge a person’s characteristic from the type of friends that the
person has. This is because people usually have a relationship with people who
share some similar aspect. To
begin with, people have tendency to become friends with people who have similar
backgrounds, ways of thinking, personalities. Imagine that you are in a party. When
you have a conversation with a person, and that person do not have much
similarities with you, would it be possible for you to continuing that
conversation? It is highly doubtful since you could not even know what to talk.
Owing to that even starting a talk with a person without a similarity is hard,
it is not plausible to become a friend with a person who is different with you.
In this regard, when you see a group of people that share a strong friendship
each other, you can think that they are sharing similarities in diverse
conditions, such as backgrounds, personality, and values.
For
example, one of my friends made a boyfriend recently. She wanted to show him to
us, so we made an appointment with her and her new boyfriend. When we met him,
he seemed sincere and honest. Also, we thought that he really fell in love with
her since he took care of her very sweetly. We told to her that she was so
lucky that she could meet a man of great personality. Since we had a great time
with him, he told to us that he wanted to hang over with us and his friends
some day. We agreed, and we made another appointment with him and his friends.
When we met his friends we were very surprised since his friends were too
vulgar and rude. She said that she could not understand why such a good man got
along with bad guys. I told her that it is not good to judge a person by his or
her friends. She agreed with me at first, however, as time goes by, she had arguments
with her boyfriend frequently. One day, she told me that she no longer regarded
him as a good person like the first time. He talked abusively, observed
everything she was doing, and even used violence against her. At the end, she
broke up with him due to his affair and violence.
For
this reason, since friends are sharing similarities each other, it is plausible
to learn about a person from the type of the person’s friends. By doing so, we
can know a person’s hidden aspects. |