Friends'o Friends

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Dammit friends are so important!

Thats what u will say..
But really, how important are they?

Lets see how many friends you did not contact from your primary school.

And then lets see how many friends you did not contact from your secondary school.

I mean, even your then best of friends, how much do you contact with him/her?


So are they really important? Lets discuss.


I agree to a certain extent that friends are important. When you are bored and lonely at home, you will of course need them to entertain you. Such as going out for some shopping, soccer, movie or dinner. This is one of the reasons why friends are so important in every human's life. They are the source of entertainment and communication amongst human. Think about it, if you do not have any friends, what can you do when you are bored? It becomes very limited and mundane.

Next, they are the ones that will help you in your life. Not a big help, but at least some. Surely when you need $10,000 to repay your debt, they will give you $10 for chicken rice and say they are in crisis too. Thus they are pretty helpful in a small way, since everyone will have to need some help sometimes.

Thirdly, they can widen your social circle which will aid you in your future job or simply just for entertainment sake. Knowing more friends do help in your life as you will have a wider variety to choose from. Lets make an example. Today i feel like going to a club. But if all your friends are Otakus, it will be impossible that they go to a club with you. Vice in versa, if your friends are all clubbers, no one will go with you to buy some anime figurines. So friends can actually generate more friends with interest which is important because you will need a wider scope of varieties to choose from.

The above are why i think friends are important. Of course, there are other reasons why friends are important. But i would also like to point out why friends are not important as well. There are reasons why i think so.

I also disagree that friends are important because when you lose a friend, you will not feel much wrong. If someone was important to you, of course when they leave you, you will feel very sad. But for friends, this is not the case. Just as mentioned above at the starting passage, how many of your past friends have you contacted today? The answer could only be maximum 1% and minimum 0%. This is a fact although people always say friends are important and that they care for their friends. In the end, most of your past friends will slowly fade away and you will forget about them all. So to me, friends just come and go, there is nothing to be sad about because it is a mundane cycle. Therefore explaining why friends are not so important as they can just come and leave.

Overall i think friends are important in general and that people should try and make more friends.


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