Journal Writing 1 - Cheng Si Yi

Should you lend to a friend? I would sometimes say yes and sometimes say no. If i' m already low on the certain things that my friend wanted to borrow, I would say no. Take money for example, my friend was low on money during recess time and she wanted to borrow some money from me. But, during that day, I am also low on money. Thus, i would say no to her although i trust her that she will return me back the next day.

There are also situations that i will agree to lend my friend something. That is, if i have extras or rather those which i do not need so much. Helping others is important but you need to see how much u trust them and if u lend it to someone, so be it. There's no point arguing about lending or not when your friend needs it very much, u have extras but you didn't want to lend it to him/her. Helping others is nice, helping friends are nicer as you could know your friend more and about her background.

Take my friend as an example. In primary school, I once had a friend which always has a lack of money. Every time when recess time, she ate very less as she did not have enough money to eat. During recess every time, I would lend her 50cents or so to let her have enough to eat. we are sort of best friends then. I trusted her a lot as i know that her mother is very strict with her and is quite poor. So, in return, she would either help me in my work or if she have some extra money from her mother, she would return some money to me. In the end, we ended up helping each other. Quite silly isn't it?

Helping friends can be both correct AND wrong in different situations. If you are helping a friend to steal or rob a bank(example). It's not correct as it is a common sense request. We should reject such request as the person who asked you to help is not a true friend to you.

Is this long enough and sensible? Hope so..