Different friends or similar friends? Sharing the same thought, going in the same direction, understanding and helping each other in the easy way are the advantages of friends who are similar to you On the other hand, friends who are different from you can easily help you to find out your week points, give you new ways of living and may change your life direction to make you become a new person-a successful person that you have never dreamed of With the friends who are similar to you, they always understand you deeply In daily working, they can share the work with you When you get stresses they can easily find out the best way to cheer you up to release your worries In studying, playing sports and doing your interests you often feel pleasant when being with those kinds of friends Because if you best know each other, it is very easy to get understanding in discussion, get fun in playing sports and subsequently, you will be always happy Another good thing of those friends is, they are helpful friends, they are always available when you need them because they go in the same ways as yours Without them, your life will be less interesting However, with the friends who have the same characteristics as yours, you not have chance to get new things in your life But you can find them easily in the friends who are different from you Those friends help you to figure out your week points and help you to amend them in properly way While giving you new ideas, different ways in solving problems, those friends may sometimes give you important decisions and one of these decision might change your life or give you new position that you have never think about For example, with me the important change started from this time last year when I lived with a new friend While I paid much of my time in chatting, playing games and doing waste things, he paid this time to study English I began to think of his way and tried to follow him to study English At that time my English skill was very week, but after one year living with him, now I have good English ability and with my high TOEFL score I have just been promoted to a new position-project manager This is a great point in my life that I got from my new friend So, from my discussions above, I would like to say that I like to have both kinds of friends Friends who are similar to me make me always happy and friends who are different from me may give me some great changes in my life