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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Getting advice from older friends is more valuable than getting advice from friends at your age. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.


Advices play an important role for people when we face both failure and success. Some people agree getting advices from older friends is more valuable than getting those from friends at their age. It is seems practical because of the various situations based on the different time. But a closer look at the fact would reveal such an agreement is not only premature but also ultimately wrong-headed.


Experiencing more events, older friends have more accurate understanding of the fact you faced and give more real example to support their advices to you. Advices from them are proved during the period they live. The first people I think of is my grandpa when I have some troubles for the reason that he always tells me similar situations he has faced. He would not give direct advices to me but I know what the stories mean and find them valuable. On contrast, the suggestions from friends at my age often full of imaginations of themselves which are unpractical at all.


Older people also have many others’s experiences which make their advices more valuable. As we all know, older people have more friends to give them advices when they faced difficulties in the past. A recent survey shows that decisions people make are 73% influenced by stories from others while the percentage of deciding by themselves is only 27%. It is undoubtedly the suggestions older people were given are much more than those of young people. This number also reveals the truth that we need more experiences which can lead us to make a correct decision.


I do not deny the fact that the advices from friends at same age would have more modern characteristics which make their advices acceptable easily. However, it is the various period old friends have got though make them know exactly how our time like and what kind of actions are proper nowadays. As a result, the possibility of giving valuable advices to us is much high.


To conclude, I firmly hold the opinion that getting advices from older friends are much valuable than getting advices from friends at my age. Older friends not only have experienced more by themselves but also have more true stories from others. As an old Chinese saying tells, we have to pay a lot if do not follow the older friends opinions.