Some people think that it’s important to have friends who have the same opinions as them, while others think it’s good to have friends who sometimes disagree with them. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays it is quite arguable
if
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friends
must have
same
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the same
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worldview or not. Some people are strongly
conserned
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concerned
that if
person
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want
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wants
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to have
friends
they have to find somebody with
same
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the same
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interests
,
while
others believe that having
friends
with somehow different
opinions
is not so bad. Speaking about myself, I associate myself with the
last
ones and now I am going to give some reasons for it.
To begin
with, the first reason
that is
staying at my side is the fact that
person
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a person
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can make
good
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a good
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friendly relationship with someone having some different
interests
. Giving example from my own experience, I have
close
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friend who is not so engaged
into
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some of my
interests
, but we still have
rather
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a rather
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comfortable friendship with both of us being
envolved
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involved
into
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learning
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the learning
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process on our course and chatting from time to time about something in and out of our university life. Moving on to the next argument, warm and helpful relationships between
friends
matter more than any differences
among
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their
opinions
.
For example
, people who do not share
same
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the same
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worldviews, but help each other as they can and
also
feel some sort of comfort
while
being together
they
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apply
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are more likely to be
friends
,
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than ones with
same
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the same
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opinions
but with some clumsiness
around
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around them
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. That tends to be so because of the fact that every person prefers to
seak
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seek
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for calm atmosphere to feel
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about others, that surround them. To sum everything up, I should say that to be
friends
with someone it is not so
neccessary
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necessary
to search
someone
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for someone
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with fully same
opinions
and
interests
. Frankly speaking, making a good friendship is mostly about being comfortable around each other, not only in calm times
,
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but
also
when some of
friends
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the friends
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need some help.
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