Posted by HeXiang on May 06, 19102 at 07:30:26:
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What do you want MOST in a friend-someone who is intelligent or someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you?
Use reasons and specific examples to explain your choice.
(1) Although people become friends for a wide variety of reasons, I privately believe that reliability is most important to me.
(2) The single word "rely" may chafe those independence-lovers into craziness, but on second thought, you will easily find people's value of "reliability" in words like "probity", "honesty", "royalty", which are not obnoxious at all. Reliability suffers a lot from the notoriety brought about by the utilitarian. Similar as they are, reliability is based on common ground, like symbiosis, while utilitarianism is based only on your own interest, not far from parasite in my own viewpoint. Since they are basically different, I am not ashamed at all to choose reliability as my first concern.
(3) Back to reality, although intelligent giants and wisecrackers are always admired and welcomed to some magnificent degree, these characteristics can only be the trappings, trinkets, or condiments. Although personally I am also fond of hanging various baubles on my school bag, I know they can be cheaply bought at any place. Savvy words can be learned from books or copied from the deluge of autobiographies of various illustrious. Soap operas have a plethora of jokes with different flavors. A humorous fop will of course make instant happiness more handy, but it is far less important compared with reliability.
(4) Reliability is the real jewel one should cherish. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Even for those who live in peacetime, a friend who can accompany them through thick and thin is always desirable. How nice it would be to confide into someone about our heartbreaks. When I grope in the dark, how earnestly I hope there will be light. And it is because of reliability that we trust in our friends' guidance. To an ultimate extreme, even for those almighty, lack of reliability can also be highly perturbable. Have you ever grudged against a late friend? Or have you ever get agitated with the long unreturned money? So even when the friendship is boiled down to skeleton, you will still find reliability coruscating in it, glaringly.
(5) In conclusion, I value reliability because I simply cannot live without it. Without reliability, friendship withered quickly.