Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to choose a friend with whom you can have fun than to choose a friend that will help you when you are in need. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Each friendship can serve a purpose in your life--some just for fun and some offering much more. The sole test to tell a real friend from a fake one is adversity. In times of need, real friends will walk in and care about you while fake friends will walk out and talk about you behind your back.

Having friends with a sense of humor is fun. In social life, it is important to have fun with friends and laughter is such a huge part of a relationship. Often people who have a keen sense of humor also have a better grasp of friendship, unless it is false friendship. In many cases, choosing a friend with whom you can have fun may help you to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. Sometimes it seems that if you do not have friends with a sense of humor, life is not funny anymore. In short, laughing heartily with friends may just turn out to be a good medicine of life that is sometimes sick with all its stress and complexity.

Nevertheless, you want to have true friends who will show their love to you in times of trouble. In real life, friends are needed both for joy and sorrow. Therefore, to have true friends is to have your needs answered. It is that kind of expectation which determines the quality of friendship. How lucky you are to be able to choose a friend who will help you when you are in need? Such a friend will never try to hurt you, not even in a joke under the disguise of a bitter sense of humor. In contrast, a fake friend laughs every time you fall, whereas a real friend runs over to help you on your feet.

On the whole, real friends, like precious and rare diamonds, are hard to find; and fake friends for having fun are everywhere like autumn leaves. Only in times of need can you realize who are your true friends and who are your fake friends. After all, having fun is not the ultimate purpose of friendship.