it is more important to keep your old friends that it is to make new friends.
Both old friends and new friends are very essential in our interpersonal relationship, and both of then have relevant merits.
Old friends always are the most direct resourses of advises we ever have. Old friends know us even better than ourselves sometimes. What they think and suggest is always from my perspective, which will make us more involvement in doing things. When I was choosing my major before my university life, I were more willing to the literature, however, my old friend gave the advise that the journalism is better. Nowdays, the journalism have a more decent salary and a better future. There is no denying the fact that old friends bring us more response and more involvement when we are in trouble, because they know better about what are our qualities and personalities.
New friends are also valuable when it comes to the enthusiasm. We live in a fact that we are surrounded by amount of new things, like the tide rush the beach repeatedly. New friends bring us enthusiasm in the boring daily life. When we have a new friend, we disire to explore him/her as soon as possible. Everyone might be excited before you participated the new program or were enrolled in a new school, because you would enter into a new net of relationship. New circumstance, new friends, and new life also make you more enthusiasm and get rid of the boring life. So, making new friends is an essential factor which lead to more colorful life.
Yet neither old friends nor are new firends all good friends. The first sight of one new friend is always unreliable and old friends' advises can not be necessarily true. What we need are good friends, and there are many qualities a good friends must prosess, telling truth, confident, patient and so on. Old friends may bring us more useful advises and new friends may bring us more enthusiasm, however, perhaps what some friends did these are for more individual benefit. So good friends are person who will pay out without feedback.
In conclusion, both old and new friend are of importance. Sometime one is more important than the other in accordance with specific circumstance. For example, when we are in trouble, we may need old friends' good advise. When we are boring with the unfair daily life, we may need new friends for more exciting things. On the other hand, what we truly require is good friends who will pay out without thinking about feedback.