108. Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends. Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. Compare the advantages of these two different ways of learning about life. Which do you think is preferable? Use specific examples to support your preference.
Depending on different types of personalities and emotional concern , we find that there is a hot debate on campus nowadays about the best way of learning about life .Some students hold the view that we should learn by personal experience , while others deem other’s advice as their premier choices , and that is also my point.
Firstly , advice from others makes up for our deficiency of experience .It’s no denying that the knowledge of life must be the most complicated subject in the world . As ambitious greeners ,we are curious about everything strange and are always full of complacence , which make us easier to be attacked by the adverse aspects from the world around . Parents and elder friends ,with their abundant experience and mature minds , protect us by leading us a correct and relatively direct way , by which we may explore our learning about life without bad influence.
Secondly ,advice provides us with the knowledge based on other’s failure. Despite different ages or generations, people in the world may encounter the same experiences as others do ,that is ,people will incredibly make similar mistakes in certain circumstance . As a result , the more we learn from other’s advice , the less possibility for us to fall down at the same place as did forerunners.
Furthermore , it is reasonable that personal experience to some extent contribute to our pursuit for truth , but I doubt that the drawbacks are more obvious . For instance ,without any assistances, the one who just stick to his own judgement is more likely to draw unilateral conclusions which may consume even more time and spirita as well.
In short ,the advice from family and friends will guild us as a light and protect us from unnecessary hurts ,by which we can reach the truth of life effectively and successfully .All reliable evidences point to one saying , that is we’d better learn about life by the advice of family and friends. |