<<      I usually spend time with five or six friends. With them, I eat lunch or sometimes go to some restaurants. And when we travel, we usually go with seven or eight friends. In fact, we plan to go snowboarding with seven friends in this winter. Spending time with these several friends is very funny. But even in these friends, for me, some of them are very favorable, while others are not favorable so much. I don't mean I hate some of them. I love all of my friends, I mean some of them are closer to me.      Of my several close friends, I have two much closer friends. And each of these two friends plays different roles to me. If I analyze the role of these two friends, one plays a role when I need someone who talk with, while the other plays a role when I want to be positive or optimistic.      When I need someone to talk with, for example, even after having dinner with five or six friends and talking too much, I need someone to talk with in private. When I talk with several friends, I can enjoy the conversations very much. This is because in such a little large group, each one has something to tell, so we can enjoy hearing or talking variety of topics while eating. But in such a place, we can not talk about our personal topics. This is because personal topics may contain some secret to some extent, so such topics are not appropriate for a large dinner table. On the other hand, after having dinner, I sometimes ask one of my friends to have some coffee or cafe in other restaurant. By doing so, I can talk with him personally. In such a case, we can talk about the more insight topics.      When I want to be optimistic, I choose the other friend. He is very optimistic so much that I sometimes feel that he thinks nothing at all. I can not talk with him about my personal affairs, but his optimistic can strengthen me without words. When I meet him, we usually go somewhere to play by his two seated car. Though he is not tall or handsome so much, he is said to be a playboy. He always have his partner, and if his partner leaves him, he soon looks for other partner. So for us, he seems to be very optimistic, though the truth is not unknown. Anyway in fact, we can be very optimistic only by spending some time with him.      I have said about spending time with one or two close friends, but I also prefer to spend my time with a large number of friends. Though I can not have personal talk with them, spending time with many friends is very enjoyable. I don't know why that is enjoyable. But surely, spending time with many friends is enjoyable, and I think we can enjoy best at seven or eight friends. For example, when we have party in our class after finishing some examination, usually thirty or forty classmates attend the party. The party is very enjoyable, but I think we can enjoy talking best at seven or eight friends. In fact, even in such a large party, we usually talk in a small group which has seven or eight people.      So though I admit the advantage of spending time with one or two close friends, I love spending time with several friends. I love to have an enjoyable time and in a large group, we can always talk with laughing.