With graduation just around the corner

This is already my last semester in university. It means that my university life is almost over. I can't believe I'm a senior now. Time really flies. I still remember when I was 20. I was a freshman and everything seemed new to me. I felt like I could do anything at that time. Maybe it was because I always had some kind of freedom in my mind and I actually had a lot of spare time then. I lost that kind of freedom, though. Since I came back to Korea from Australia, I think I've been leading so busy life especially doing a lot of school works. I always had to worry about grades after taking the exams and take care of lots of assignments to catch up on. Now, I'm likely to manage to meet the GPA for the early graduation, so I can take the teacher's exam next month, but I'm afraid I've recently got too much stress because of all those things. I'm kind of tired now. I can't single out one thing exactly, but I had many things that I wanted to do before I graduate. I'm running out of time and I have to focus on studying for the teacher's exam for now. I just feel gloomy nowaday. I need to get a life!

What are friends for?

We've been meeting a lot of people as we live. We usually meet our parents and siblings at first. As we grow up, we meet a lot of friends in the neighborhood or in the school. Not all the people we meet become our friends, though. As I mentioned before, people have many different types of personalities. Some people are so easy to go on conversations with that it's possible to talk to each other all day if both have enough time. Why is that? It might be because both people have lots of common topics. Or they might have similar style of personality. The way of their thinking might be almost the same. In contrast, I feel that some people are not that easy to talk about. They seem to have very different way of thinking, so they usually don't support what I say and don't understand how I feel in the certain situation. What kind of person do you prefer to make as a friend? I prefer the former, actually. I would tell my concern to the former and get some comfort from them rather than telling it to the latter who might think I'm stupid because I have such a concern which is not worth worrying about for them.

However, that kind of people are also good friends. They just have a different point of view, which does not mean that they hate me. They often help me to see myself in another perspective so as not to become self-righteous. Nobody wants to hear something bad about oneself, but friends indeed might be the people who are willing to say their friends' faults to their friends franky. To be honest, I really don't like to hear something bad about me, but I think I need to be more generous about candid advice.