DOES AGE MATTER? (ESSAY)
My own view in the matter is age difference doesn’t matter much as far as friendship are concerned. After all, age is just a number so if you get along well with him/her, you can build a very strong friendship ever. I guess everyone should try having an age-gap friendship because it is so interesting and healthy.
In addition, I’ve also had an age-gap friends start when I was 13 years old.
Thanks to social media for finding me such a good, caring and clever friends. If I can’t answer any question, they’re willing to help me in every subject. We used to talk a lot, sharing problems and gossiping things. For your information, having older friends can increase our knowledge by just listening their experience at school or anywhere. Our age difference is 5 to 6 years old and until now, I’m not having any problem situation for being friends with the age-gap friends. They are very understanding friend and I really appreciate that. I’m always told my
feelings for my crush to them and they’re so supportive but for now I’m not having any feelings for anyone.
Furthermore, friends are significant sources of support, affection and encouragement. No matter what age group they come from, friends can provide emotional stability and responsiveness. They can listen, advise and empathize with our circumstances. Therefore, we shouldn’t let age be a limiting factor in friendship. From what I told you earlier, age-gap friendship can be positive and beneficial for both parties involved. Older friends can offer wisdom, guidance, and support to younger friends, while younger friends can bring energy and encouragement to older friends. It is vital to maintain friendship by respecting each other’s stages of life and experiences. From this, we can say that age-gap friendships make it look unique and valuable friendships.
Moreover, there are many more advantages of making friends with age- gap friends such as we can reduce loneliness and social isolation, which can harm our mental and physical health. But there are also disadvantages if we are mistaken in choosing a friend, examples such as him/her can lead to jealousy and competitiveness in work, beauty or appearance will appear if not being sincere in making friends and it can leave you feeling depressed, awkward and alone.
In a nutshell, age doesn’t matter in friendship because it is no different from any other type of friendship, as long they’re together, have tolerance and communicate to each other a lot and not talking behind friends back. As the saying goes, communication is the key.
