Friends (Yap)

Friends
There is an adage in Chinese culture: You can rely on your parents when you are at home, but you can rely on your friends when you are out. I think this adage represents the importance of friends perfectly.
During these years, I have made some confidants, and I treasure our friendship so much. There is another adage in Chinese: A confidant is enough during a person’s life time. And I believe in this. Actually I am a person lacking of the feeling of safety. For this reason, I will never trust a person easily. But when I stay with my confidants, I can set my heart at rest and enjoy the easement. When I am in trouble or in bad mood, I always turn to my confidants to confide my feelings. They understand me well and they can always find ways to make me happy and help me to solve the problems. Sometimes I can be surprised at the tacit understanding between us. It is really fantastic and sometimes we only need an eye contact or a smile to understand each other.
However, sometimes not all the friends we make with are good ones. I think that in this case, the important thing is that we should have the wisdom to distinguish good friends and bad friends. I am gratified that during the years, I have kept a distance from the ones who could be bad friends and had a bad influence on me. But some of my classmates did make bad friends and be influenced by them. I feel so sad for them because they changed a lot and some even neglected their studies.
So, friends are very important in our life, but we should choose the right ones. A real friend is the one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. I hope you can enjoy yourself with your friends. Enjoy your time with your friehds!