Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The statement is making us to choose between the ability to maintain long-term friends and the ability to make new friends. I guess this dichotomy does exist in our life, since we have limited time and energy, we indeed cannot give equal and sufficient attention to everybody around us. But I don’t think everyone has to share the same idea with regard to this choice, because we all have different personalities and experience. On the one hand, I am a fan of long-lasting relationships, but I also respect those who can make friends easily. This apparent difference really comes from our different needs.
For starters, I enjoy long-term friendships in that old friends are the ones who stand behind you and always support you to move forward, just like your relatives who bond with you. It is quite an honor for me to have such kind of friends. And it can be proved by a story between me and my best friend. When I was in senior high school, I was a member in the dancing team. One day, the teacher taught us to perform a new dancing movement. Even if I tried several times, it was still too hard for me to finish it and I felt too shameful, so that at that time almost everyone in the dancing team was laughing at me except my best friend. Instead, she just went over to me and gave me a remedy on how to do it without any impatience. As time goes by, she is still my best friend who I trust in most; because I am clearly conscious of that she will never leave me behind. Maintaining friendship with such an old friend over several years indeed brings me a sense of happiness and provides us with a safety net.
Still, making new friends is also an indispensable part of my life, which renders my life increasingly fantastic. Although I am a graduate student major in biology, I prefer attending different kinds of activities to just doing experiment alone in labs. When I found someone who share mutual thought or have similar interest with me, I am willing to give my social account to them and keep in touch with them, which enormously enrich my life. I favor doing research regarding the combination of different majors with biology as well, and the ability to make new friends with people from a variety of fields ensures better cooperation between us. Hence, making new friends brings me another kind of happiness.
Of course, I am capable to defend myself when some people points out that friendship which you establish with ease is vulnerable, because I think that whether friendship can last long depends on how well you maintain it, not the way by which you become friends. In some cases, long-lasting friends may begin with an occasional chance and you will find a mutual respect and trust when you get to know each other deeper.
Overall, old friends and new friends are both indispensable parts of our lives. I stand on my ground on this one: both the skill to maintain friendship with a few people over a long period and to make many new friends easily is crucial for us.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, really, regarding, so, still, well, as to, i guess, i think, kind of, of course, in some cases, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 81.0 43.0788530466 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2468.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 540.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.57037037037 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54451452812 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501851851852 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 753.3 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1495513651 48.9658058833 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.304347826 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4782608696 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95652173913 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329288007631 0.236089414692 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0975588199945 0.076458572812 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931102251561 0.0737576698707 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199320588932 0.150856017488 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.044104727935 0.0645574589148 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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