Friendship is a close relationship that we achieve with time and great struggle. Friendship is based on sympathy, common experience and similar interests. Friendship requires mutual assistance and understanding, frankness and trust. The main difference between friendship and kinship is that friendship is a time-tested relationship; you have some time to get used to a person and then become friends, in case with parents, they love you before you're born.
Kinship is a gift that you get from your birth. You never choose your family; you just accept them and perceive it as common and usual for yourself. Sometimes people are not even conscious of how lucky they are to have any relatives. Kinship is one of the best moral feelings; unlike friendship, kinship does not require people to have same hobbies and interests. However, even if mutual benefits are not the main requirement in family, there are duties of children to parents, like obedience, respect and concern. And parents also have their duties, such as care, provision, security and proper upbringing. Conversely, friendship do not obligate anyone according to law and may be more sincere than kinship.
For some people friendship and kinship can mean almost the same, however, people should not forget that we can change our friends, but not the family. Good friendship is a consequence of a good decision and great effort, while good kinship can be made of great effort, but also be a good present for your first birthday.
I liked how you describe your ideas and agree on most of then! I also think kinship is a gift. However since it's a compare and contrast format, I think it would be better to directly compare or contrast them rather than showing aspects of friendship and kinship. Enjoyed your writing!
ReplyDeleteI can see what you are going to say from your clear thesis statement. You gave a lot of features needed in friendship and kinship as examples, so it was easy to understand. It would be better if you compare more precisely in your second paragraph. The last sentence in your conclusion was impressive.:)
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DeleteThe point you mentioned that kinship does not require sharing something with your partner is my reason that friends are the closer one than my relatives. I believe sharing your hobbies and thoughts with someone is key to be close to them. Since there is no striking contrast between your two items of friendship and kinship, it is hard to figure out in your essay what are the differences and who outweighs what. I suggest you need to think about that. Thanks.
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