Is it better to let a friend make a mistake than saying or doing something that would end the friendship

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When one of you friends get trapped in a trouble, and in your opinion, the solutions he/she decides on will do him/her harm. What will you do then? To let him/her go ahead as he/she decides, or to say or do something to prevent him/her from the mistakes (in which way you also take the risk of ending your friendship) ? “To be, or not to be, it is a question.” As far as I am concerned, I would prefer to let him/her have a try. For one thing, since one could never predict the exact future, it is irresponsible to assume what the other does will be a “mistake”. Even you think you have exactly the same experience, and the result is a nightmare, the story of your friend may still have another ending. To assume one would definitely fail is quite presumptuous. So, before one decide to say or do something to prevent his/her friend from “mistakes”, I think he/she should stop for a while, and check his/her way of thinking first: what is the probability that the friend’s deeds will be followed by a bad consequences? Has he/she taken every factor into consideration? For another, if making suggestions would “end the friendship”, it follows that the possibility your friend will listen and accept your suggestion is very low. A good example in this case is woman in love: one of your female friends is having affair with a guy who, in your eyes, will not give her any future. Say or do something pushy? It is always useless. A woman in love will not listen. Then what’s the meaning to do something that you know from the start is useless? Last but not the least, in most cases, it is always benefical to make mistakes. The development of human being is a process of trial-and-error. Only through making mistakes could one know where his or her deficiency lies. After errors there could be more targeted trials, and more errors, and

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