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12.10 independent writing
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is often not a good idea to move to a new city or a new country because you will lose old friends.!
Quite contrary to the statement that one might lose old friends as a result of moving to a new place, it actually endows us with massive opportunities to get acquaint with new friends.
A fact one can hardly deny is that in a new place, we encounter numerous strangers of whom dozens turn to acquaintances whereas couples become friends. The amount of new friends one made might differ on whether one is gregarious or not, yet the common thing is that everyone do have friends no matter he or she is outward or inward. More obvious is that beneficiaries brought by a new place are more than new friends. One makes progress as well. A new city, especially a new country, usually provides a favorable environment to embrace people with diversified cultural background. This asks for our tolerance for different thinking pattern, traditions or values which may quite differ from those long-cherished by us. In order to get well along with others, we are required to learn to prune our own personality. During this process, we form a characteristic of more outward, easy-going, and considerate, which is in turn of great help to make friends.
Still, the fear for losing friends is virtually unnecessarily because true friends will never lose. “Friend in need is friend indeed” is an old cliché, it is nevertheless true that in every phrase of our life, there are couples of such friend who are always there stay with us at any time and any place. My own experience is quite exactly such an example. I have been away from my hometown for nearly a decade, yet thousands miles and ten years are by no means obstacles of the friendship between my childhood friends and me. We met about every lunar new year festival, and felt intimately as if we were never separated.
Ones who refuse to go to a new place for worrying losing old friends, they are worried too much. If by any chance, one’s uneasiness lies in those nodding-friends, for they will be out of reach after they moving to a new place. In an era of highly developed media and communication, various forms of vehicles, like the internet, 3G telephone, video talking devices, will guarantee any friend being at hand’s distance. In a word, distance is the last excuse for a friend’s lost. |
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