the most valuable thing in life is friendship

                We, humans are born with intelligence to analyse and differentiate every person in our life. There are many type of people we will met in our life, for example: friends, family, colleague and e.t.c.  Some confess that friends are the most important person in our life, some feels that family is the most important group in our life, but as the old saying goes, “No man is an island”; we need a person to accompany us throughout our life. Through my experience, I disagree that friends are the most important thing in our life because friends are inconsistent. Besides, there are many other vital things or people in our lives, namely family members and personal development.

                The first reason is because friends are not inconsistent. In other words, friends are not forever. Flashing back our memory to pre-primary school, most of us have already deleted all our friends list. Next, we went into primary school and most of the memory have become blurry. As time goes on, we have totally lost all connection with all of our primary school friends. Then, i came to secondary school and met a new bunch of friends and remain contact for the time being. Through all these examples of life, we can actually find out that our friends will kept on changing regardless of our will. In every different stage of our life, we will meet new friends and we have to adapt and gain new social knowledge. Besides that, as we grow older, our mind perception will become more materialistic rather than being naïve when we are a teenager. In my opinions, I think that friendship is just like a relationship which will begin and ends anytime.

                Loyalty and trust is very questionable in friendship; betrayal and bad intention occurs among friendship. On the other hand, family will not normally turn against each other, the idiom ‘blood is thicker than water’  explains the importance and significance of our family member; the bond that we share is much stronger than the relationship we have with others.  In most of the situation, family will always accompany and try their level best to see us through the rough patch in our life. Besides that, family members which live under the same roof will have stronger bonds of relation compared to bonds between friends. Stronger bonds will lead to greater trust and loyalty among each other. Therefore, I feel that family is more important than friends.

                Humans are easily affected by surroundings. For instance, when majority of the people are doing the same things whether it is ethical or unethical, we will eventually copy and imitate their action. “Two wrongs make a right” and “Bandwagon” concept are eventually applied in here. With all these concepts, we can conclude that friends play an important role in building and shaping our personalities and characteristics. For example, friends which have a good personalities will act as an angel to develop a well-rounded character while friends which have a lot of negative qualities will act as an devil and eventually able to tarnish our reputation. Therefore, I think we should choose personal development over friendship because it is our responsibility to make sure that no one deters us from what we need to develop ourselves constantly in life.

                In a nutshell, I cannot agree that friends are the most important thing in life. It is because there are other thing such as family members, personal development, health and etc. which are more important than friendship. However, this does not mean that friends are unimportant! They are an integral part of our lives, but we need to be balanced in our view of friends, and make sure we know what is more important when making decisions in our lives.