Should we Focus on Making New Friends or Keeping Old Friends? In addition, making new friends are not always easy, sometimes it takes much time and many efforts. When you try to blend with a new collectivity, sometimes people around you are friendly and it is easy to make new friends, however, sometimes it can be extremely hard. If you do not pay attention to keeping your old friends, you would feel lonely and disappointed because you have neither new or old friends. In that condition, you are not likely to performance well with your study or work without of assist or encouragement of friends. By indicating the importance of keeping old friends, am I implying that making new friends is not necessary? Certainly not. One would never have friends if he does not try to make some, not to mention new friends might become your old friends one day. It is never a wise choice to stop making friends, especially when you come to a new environment such as a new school or a new company. We need to get along well with people around us. Friends near us can help us a lot, for example, if you make friends with your colleagues, they can can help you a lot with work if you are not familiar with it. Or, in other words, making new friends can help us a lot in a new environment. To summarize, making new friends is beneficial for us, as we can get help from friends when we are in a new environment. However, we cannot ignore the indispensable power of keeping old friends, for old friends knows you more than anyone else and it is not always easy to make new friends. Old and new, everyone needs different friends. Really appreciate your corrections!