Is hanging out with friends simply waste of time?

Hang out with my friends is never a waste of time. I learn a lot from them, and they have so much going on in their lives that it's just good to find out what is going on, and learn not to make some of the mistakes that they have made.

I agree with you that friendship is the only relationship that we make, we choose who we want to be friends with and yes they can be a lifeline, they can be as close to us as brothers or sisters and will always be there for us whenever we need them. Like you I love hanging out with friends too. We would go out shopping, watch a movie together or just have dinner together. I love my friends and I miss them terribly because I am too far from them now. I believe some parents say that hanging out with friends is simply a waste of time because they are with the wrong crowd or they've chosen the wrong people as friends. I remember an old saying, "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are." Your choice of company will tell people who you really are. If a person has chosen a group of people who love to study, then he will be influenced by these people to study and excel in school. On the other hand, if a person chose a group where they cut classes or skip classes just so they can hang out or go somewhere else then that person will never graduate school, he might even end up getting kicked out of school.

In my college days I was like those guys who find the second place - I bunked my classes, always partied with friends and saw too many movies - During those days movie theater tickets were just Rs. 3.00 here and we watched movies about daily. There was so much fun and I really enjoyed this. I was never a great student when it came to numbers and ranks. Always scored IInd division marks - 50-60 (maybe because the subjects I studied never interested me. But the parents never complained... they knew they could not stop me. I remember once they asked cant I just attend classes? I told them - I will go to the movies anyway... now you decide whether you want to know which one on a daily basis or otherwise. But this helped me become a better person - We did social service every Saturday and Sunday, organized some fests at the college, did organize some cycling races... We never neglected studies... I remember mentioning that on an earlier discussion - We studied late nights. We also never neglected our duties as children and never disobeyed what we accepted.... In my opinion, it is not that Hanging out but the other things that get neglected due to this is of concern to parents. If you have a good company of friends, you can do things that would lay the pillars of what days are expected to come. Cheers, theSids.

if you have good friends i think it is worth it. in my case i only hang out with real friends. i never think of it as a waste of time.