Admittedly, borrowing money from others sometimes can be embarrassing, especially when it comes to the situation that you have to borrow money from you friends. Considering the potential risk of damaging the friendship with your friends, some people conservatively claim that we should always try to avoid doing so. However, from my personal perspective, there is nothing wrong with borrowing money from your true friends as long as we fulfill our commitment to return money back to our friends. It’s no doubt that money is somewhat sensitive between our friends and us, and improperly handling the money issue might harm the relationship. However, if the friendship is built on true trust, money issue will not bother you and your friends. Take myself as an example, some of my true friends borrowed money from me several times, and every time they returned money just as they committed. Therefore, I never feel uncomfortable if they want to borrow money from me again, because I know they are my true friends and they will never cheat me. In return, if I have to borrow money, they’ll fully support me on that. So both I and my friend can benefit from this “extra resources”. Secondly, when you have to borrow money to handle urgent cases, borrowing money from friends has highest success rate than borrowing from others. If I define the terms of “friend”, I would define it as people who can help and support me when I am in trouble or need help. Unavoidably, people occasionally face the shortage of money, in which the cases that people need somebody’s help. Under that situation, I believe, there is no better person than your friends who you can ask help from. But we have to be careful that if your friend doesn’t want to borrow you money, it does not necessarily mean that they do not want to help you. Again, friendship should be built on trust, so we should understand your friends may have his/her own difficulties. To sum up, we should always try to avoid borrowing money from others, nevertheless, when we are forced to do so, I would high recommend borrowing money from your true friends, because they are the person who have the most possibility to support you. However, we must be honest to our friends and keep our commitment. Believe me, money can improve your relationship with your friend rather than damage it if you handle the money issue carefully. |