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What Is True Friendship

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True Friendship and Violence The world is surrounded by disparate things. Marvelous, breath-taking, astounding, as well as grotesque, ugly things. If we didn’t have ugly things in our lives, we wouldn’t appreciate the beautiful things that exist. You see I keep saying things, and things and things, but what I mean by things is not specifically actual, material stuff, but everything that exists in our world. Have you ever taken a moment in your life to think about the things that you find beautiful, what you find ugly, what makes you happy, what makes you sad? Well, it’s a difficult task, let me tell you. There are many things in the world that you could find beautiful, such as the sunset, flowers, joy and happiness. Physical and …show more content…

If you think that a flower is ugly, that’s your opinion, I’m not going to try to change it because opinions need to be respected. But if, for example, you say that violence is good, I will unquestionably have to disagree with you. Violence is NEVER good. There may be things in the world that may be seen differently according to a person’s perspective or opinion, but worldwide issues that we simply know are bad, that we know are ugly, such as violence, poverty and ignorance, are never good, they are never beautiful. There are some things in the world that will always be bad or will always be good, no matter the person’s opinion. To conclude this debatable essay, I’m only going to leave you with what became my favorite quote on friendship after typing this, “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything (Muhammad Ali).”. I think that it is better to focus on the small beautiful things in life rather than the ugly ones; I firmly believe that you always need to look on the bright side of

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