▶ Your Answer : Some people think that it is better to tell one’s friend to get help from a tutor than to help him when he asked them for help at a subject they are good at. However, in my opinion, it would be better if people help their friend in this case. There are two reasons why. First, by rejecting friend’s favor, the relationship can become awkward. Second, teaching is a also good way to learn.
First of all, if you reject your friend’s favor, the relationship might become awkward. Naturally it will make you fall apart with your friend. Imagine how your friend will feel when he got rejected by you. He would feel disappointment, and this will affect the friendship between you and your friend. For instance, when I was in high school, my experiment partner in Science class asked me few Chemistry questions. Despite of knowing the answers, I suggested him to refer to the textbook and rejected to teach. The result was devastating. He disappointed at me, and I could not have a single conversation with him for two weeks while doing experiments together. Without having talks, experiments took longer time to finish and became less precise. This actually effected my grades. As I get upset about my friend’s reaction, the relationship between me and him had gotten awkward. Eventually we fall part.
Second, you get to understand it better when you teach someone what you are good at. To teach something to a person, first you need to know about the stuff well enough to explain. It will make you study more and eventually expand your knowledge regard the subject. For example, I always struggled with Religion Exam when I was in 11th grade. One day, a friend of mine asked me to teach him about all the chapters that are going to be covered in the exam. Since I decided to help my friend, I had to reorganize all of the important parts of the textbooks and the notes. While doing it, I memorized them without noticing. As a result, I received a perfect score on the exam.
To sum up, to not make the relationship awkward, you should help your friend when he ask you a favor. Moreover, you could learn about the subject more by teaching. In this regard, I firmly believe that it is better to help one’s friend when he asked for help at a subject you are good at for the reasons I mentioned above. |