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toxicity774 · 发表于 2012-9-6 22:00:28

Q: Agree or disagree that it's more important to keep old friends than it is to make new friends

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In this topic, I partially agree that it's more important to keep old friends than it is to make new friends. While many people think that they should expend new relationships as much as possible, in my view, wonderful as the advantages that making new friends results in are, they cannot compete with the benefits that keeping old friends brings about.

First of all, all relationship involve in trust; in the other words I believe old friends is more reliable than new friends. When people are in trouble, they can always turn to their old friends for help. For a true friendship, a good friend is willing to help us without any interest. They will support you in your life even if everyone else stand the opposite side of you because they have many shared memories and met you for a long time. People can even share the secrets and problems to true friends who are sympathetic and may not reveal theirs. Thus, people feel more comfortable with their old friends. These things build a tight bond and that bond in turn creates a level of responsibility. If people just take advantages of their friends, they would be betraying the friendship when it bring benefits to them. It is nice to make new friends, but your first reasonability is to the friends you already have.

Secondly, it's take long time to cultivate a genuine friendship. Individuals need time to know each other, if we make too many friends, we might only spend a short period of time for it. For instance, When I was a college freshman, I was really excited about all the new things in the college. I spent a lot of much time to make new friends. But I found that I did not have so much time that I can not treat all my friends whole- heartedly. My friends are also encountered the same situation. Gradually, we have friction between us and then I found when it comes to an emergency, the so-caleed friends might back out of a help. At that moment, I do realize that keeping old friends are more valuable and important than make new friends!

In sum, cultivating a genuine friendship involves trust and needs time. The person, who are never worried about keeping old friends, would be thought as a selfish man. Because the person would not care if the people he or she harmed by doing so remained friends or not, the relationship might be interrupted rapidly. All in all, I believe that it's very important to keep old friends.

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