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There are two types of people about seeking advice from the others. Some people prefer to ask older people for advise, others prefer to ask advice from people who is same age. However, when it comes to the statement that getting advice from older friend would be more valuable than asking for help from friends your won age, I certainly disagree. There are two reasons why I feel this way.
First of all, I believe that asking advice from same age is far better than from older friend, because friend who is on same age understand me better. Friends who is much older than us lived different lives with us in terms of norms, society, politics, paradigm and etc. For example, Some older friends still doesn't understand why people use social media in spite of many downsides of social media. This is because, only a few years ago, when they were on our age, there was no smart phone, social media and etc. So, if I ask problem on social media relationship to my older friend, he might not suggests a good solution, because he don't understand social media. However, friends who is on same age as me can understand my situation and suggest possible solutions to my problem.
On top of that, I think that asking help to friend who is on same age is better because it is less uncomfortable than asking older friends. As you know, in Asia country, younger people have to treats older people very politely. It is very intrigue and hard to be being polite to someone when we have a deep conversation, especially when we seek advice from others. For example, I once tried to ask some advice about my sexual life with my girl friend from my older friend who is about 5 years older than me. I found that it was very complicate topic to ask some advice from others and also It was very hard for me to ask sexual problems with older people because I thought that he might consider me as impolite person.
To summary, asking helps from older people seems not as good as to ask young people because older people can't understand well than people of same age. Moreover, asking help from older people might very hard because younger people have to be very polite, especially in Asian country. For those reasons I disagree with the idea that it is better to ask advice from older people than young people.