Toefl® essay sample: What do you want most in a friend?

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What do you want most in a friend- someone who is intelligent, someone who is sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one if this characteristics is most important to you? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion.

Every person has a different opinion about good friend’s behaviour. Some people prefer to have a friend who is intelligent, others choose a friend who is funny, and rest of them prefer to have a friend who is reliable. All of these three characters are important behaviour of friends, but in my opinion the reliability is the best quality of friends. Without any trust or belief in each other, the relationship between people can not last for long time.

Firstly, the fundament of friendship is to believe in each other. Relationship between friends can be lasting long on their reliability. When you have friends who are reliable, you could reveal your secrets to them so it would help you to keep the warm and more closely relationship with them. On the other hand, when you are loyal to your friends, they would also like to keep friendship with you. A friend is a person whom we can trust and share our secrets, inner thoughts and consider the way to solve any problems.

Furthermore, trust makes your friendship deeper and more solid. For example, if we need an urgent help on some difficulties such as financial problem, in most cases, besides family, people we ask help from are our friends who are most reliable. We turn to them because we trust their sincerity to give us help and it is same to our friends.

It is obviously, intelligent and humorous are also important characters of friends, but I trust the reliability is vital quality in relationship between people and it motivates people to deepen their friendship. On based of our faith or belief in each other, we can have good and close relation for long time with people. It gives us close friend whom we can believe in and want to last the relationship.

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