My opinion of friendship and love
Friendship and love are so important in one's life. These teaches us how to give comfort, empathize and consider someone's situations. Understanding someone's environment and talking with someone about various topics widen one's mental visual. Finally, in this process, people can learn many important things of life. I think learning such values can be only in relationship between many people.
However, I think both friendship and love can also offend one's mind. I think these are based on trust. However sometimes trust between people breaks. There are many reasons of this incident but I think in most cases, it's because one is betrayed by one's friend or lover or feels that one can't believe friend and lover anymore because of their behavior and usual thought in their mind. When trust breaks, friendship or love can't survive anymore. It's hard for most people to accept the fact that they can't be a friend or lover anymore. This process always give one sadness and feeling betrayed.
Seneca, Roman statesman said that "Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." Is it true that friendship always benefit but love sometimes injures? I think in this sentence, there are no detailed explanation about meaning of two verbs, benefit and injure. What is benefit? What is injure? I think meaning of these verbs always change depending on what situation is.
As I said before, friendship and love can become both good thing and bad thing. However, I want to say that friendship and love always benefits. Of course, many people are sometimes sad and feel frustrated because of broken trust. However I think these experiences could be a good stepping stone for us. I have many experiences deeply wounded by broken trust. But I could learn many wisdoms too. I could develop discernment eye and learn about me. I could have opportunity to think of my usual behavior or what is in mind. I could be more mature person because of these experiences.
In conclusion, I think friendship and love can injure one's mind in short term but over a long term, I don't agree with the sentence "Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures" because I think it is worth having various experiences.
Hello, I'm Sungtae Kim from same class. I enjoyed reading your essay. I also wrote about this topic and I was interested because you wrote in a different point of view. You compared and contrasted the concept of love and friendship. Also, the essay has good organization. But to give some feedback I think it would have been better if you explained more about your experience specifically so that reader can know what happened exactly. Other than that I think it was a good essay. Thank you once more for sharing this essay:)
ReplyDeleteHi I'm Soyoung from your class. I think that you thought carefully about friendship and love and your support sentences are logical to give me a reason to believe them because you wrote the main idea that you questioned and you wrote the answer and refuted the quotation. Also, the title is appropriate your writing and that there are clear beginning, middle and end is good to read. but I think that it's better to add some detailed examples about your experiences. Thank you for sharing!
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