It is common to see people are viewing because their ideas and beliefs do not match And today, I would like to talk about a time when 2 of my closest friends had a disagreement. If my memory serves me right approximately 4 months ago, we had we had, uh, to prepare to pre present an English presentation. And my teacher required required required our to choose the topic we would like to present. And we we have to talk about a variety of forms of hobbies and had to choose a specific hobby to display in details. Um, for example, what people do when they immerse themselves in their activities. And when I discuss the topic with my friends who would like to choose to listen to music to describe for the example section of our group’s presentation. Chang, on the other hand, she want to she wanted to talk about reading books because the thing that reading books is, um, exciting activity and it’s a more is in and it’s it is easier to talk about than listen to music. The debate became more ex escalated because, uh, they passionate about the true choosing topic and has strong reasons to support their choice. I felt a bit stressed at that time because I didn’t know how to solve these problems. In the end, I give them some good advice and explained about this situation for them. After that, they apologized to each other, and we decided to combine 2 activities to talk about and describe in details. Honestly, at that time, I’ve
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It's common to see disagreements arise when people's ideas and beliefs don't align. Today, I'd like to talk about a time when two of my closest friends had a disagreement. If my memory serves me right, about four months ago, we were preparing for an English presentation. Our teacher required us to choose a topic we wanted to present, and we had to talk about various forms of hobbies, choosing one specific hobby to discuss in detail. For example, we needed to describe what people do when they immerse themselves in their activities. When I discussed the topic with my friends, one of them wanted to choose listening to music as the example for our group's presentation. Chang, on the other hand, wanted to talk about reading books because she felt it was an exciting activity and easier to discuss than listening to music. The debate escalated because they were both passionate about their chosen topics and had strong reasons to support their choices. I felt a bit stressed at that time because I didn't know how to resolve the situation. In the end, I offered some advice and explained the situation to them. After that, they apologized to each other, and we decided to combine the two activities to talk about and describe in detail. Honestly, at that time, I was...
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