Spend Time With One or Two Close Friends or With a Large Number of Friends

This is the final exam topic of English Composition.


“Some people prefer to spend time with one or two close friends. Others choose to spend time with a large number of friends. Compare the advantages of each choice. Which of these two ways of spending time do you prefer? Give reasons to support your answers.”


To spend time with a large number of friends has the advantages of more funs, and less complaints shared among people. On the other hand, to spend time with one or two friends has the advantages of being more touched and being much closer to each other than the former choice. When we hang out with a large number of friends, we seldom talk about our bad moods or our difficult situations, we are ashamed to share or open ourselves too much to a big amount of people. That means we do not have to suffer others’ problems, and we also have to deal with our problems alone. If we do not share the most concerned thoughts of others, we will not be able to come closer; we will not know each other better. However, we will have more funs. If we are with a large amount people, we tend to become happier, or easy to get high. We are ashamed to act too wild when we are alone or when we are with only a few friends. But being with a crowed of people can free us from our self-restrictions. On the contrast, when we get along with one or two close friends, we can talk everything, every tough stuffs head in our lives. We can share the things which are not going in our expected ways to friends. Those friends will stand with us; they will help us or saying something to comfort us. That makes us feel better. We might have more funs and act more wildly that usual when we spend time with a large amount of friends, but after the joyful period, we have to face our problems alone and no one understand what we are suffering. When I am going to celebrate a special event, such as New Years Eves, I prefer to spend it with a large number of friends since I do not want to ruin others happy moods, and others will not ruin mine, too. Most of time, I prefer to spend time with one or two close friends. I think sharing our things deeper can help us develop better friendship. Most of all, few close friends are the best treasure in life, thus I prefer to develop friendship with few close friends than a large mount of general friends or strangers.