Money cannot buy true friends (HZH)

Money cannot buy true friends

            When it comes to money, most of the people have optimistic thoughts. Money is regarded as one of the most important things. A saying goes that money is the second god. It is, however, doubtful that money is powerful enough to name 'a second god'. Especially, in the case of true friends, it is interesting to wonder if money can make true friends or not.

              First of all, it argues for the idea that money cannot buy true friends because a friend in need is a friend indeed. There are many fair-weather friends, who stay close to us and befriend us only when have money. A true friend always stands with us even when we are poor as a church mouse. There is a famous story in Buddhism regarding fake friends. There once lived a boy who was born a silver spoon in his mouth. His well-to-do parents did not educate him because they thought that he could live without any worry about money till his last breath. When both of his parents passed away, he did not manage to do anything well and spent money like water with his friends. Finally, he lost all his property. His fake friends left him alone and finally he became a beggar. To make a long story short, he died of hunger alone in the forest. Therefore, it is clearly obvious that money cannot buy true friends.

           The argument in favor against the idea that money cannot buy true friends is that money is the resource of anything to be done and friend is not an exception. It is blindingly obvious that money can solve most of the problems and create opportunities too. Likewise, we can get many friends out of money. Among them, we can wisely choose who are really true friends. Without money, a person is less likely to find friends and thus finding true friends is less possible than a person with money.

          Taking everything into account, there is no doubt that money cannot buy true friends. However, it does not totally mean that we do not need to find money to get friends. Money, at its best value, is a good servant. As a result, the more money we have, the more friends it can create. All in all, I think that what we should do best is to decide wisely ourselves which friend is true or which one is fake.

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