Agree or Disagree: Friends are the most important influence on young adults

[TYLone]

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(Friends are the most important influence on young adults)
There are lots of questions on the table whether Friends are the most important influence on young adults or other people like family are. I personally agree with the statement that friends are the most important influence on young adults. There are two major reasons.

To begin with, Young adults build their characters by their friends. Young adults want to be fit with other people to be one of members of group. They change their standard of behavior or attitude although these are contradicted to their own conviction, to fit with others. As they think different way and behave differently from their own conviction, they get accustomed to different thought and different behavior as time goes by. So depending what kind of friends they hang out, young adults make their characters. For example, my sister was shy and she was always afraid of talking with other people but when she attended junior high school and met friends who became her best friends, her personality changed perceivably. Her friends were very active and they participated every extra-curricular activities and clubs in school. As my sister was hanging out with them she became active girl and followed her friends and participated lots of club in school. She was changed. In this sense, Friends are the most important influence on young adults.

On top of that, Friends understand each other the most. When young people are getting old and became young adults, they become very sensitive and are insubordinate to their parents anymore. And they get a lot of stress from various aspects in life like about their appearances, school works, and relationship with girl/boy friend…etc. Young adults do not feel comfortable talking about their issues especially relationship related problem to their family and even if they tell their family, their family feel difficult to understand and do not give good advice. So they go and consult with their friends. Since their friends are having similar issues and have same or similar age, they understand well and give them a good advise that young adult people need to listen. According to the recent survey, young adults usually talk more with their friends about their school life and relationship than their parents or other family because their fiends understand them the most. In this sense, Friends are the most important influence on young adults.

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