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.
What is the relationship between one's number of friends and his happiness? Do more friends and thus making new friends make one happier? Or is the maintenance of a number of old friends more crucial? Answers vary from one person to another. From my point of view, I think the ability to make many new friends play a far more important role keeping one happy than the ability to keep small number of old friendships over a long time. My position is supported as follows:
First, keeping friends with a small group of people over time is far more difficult than making many new friends, rendering people less prone to happiness. We all know that things and life always change and friends meet and get separate easily over time. To attempt to keep friendship with old friends can take up a lot of time and effort that colors the quality of one's happiness. For instance, I now barely talk to my friends that I made in the U.S. because it is simply harder for us to get in touch and to know and understand each other's situation. I rarely try to gain happiness from such connection because it consumes too much of my energy. I would rather prefer to talk with my current friends because they are in physical proximity with me and know my situation generally well. There is fewer barrier of time and space, making me prone to seek happiness from my new friends Therefore, the ability to make many new friends is more important for one's happiness.
Secondly, happiness is a product of novelty, which is produced more likely from new friendship rather than old friendships. With new friendship comes fresh and new things that bring excitement and joy to people. Making many new friends who share similar interests with you can greatly multiply such effects and bring people tremendous happiness. In contrast, with old friends, since you have known them fairly well, there is relatively little amount of new information being exchanged from each other during communication, resulting in boredom and dryness. Such condition damages the quality of friendship and causes people less prone to feel happy.
Admittedly, it is always argued that old, small segment of friendship is real one that enable people to share their secrets and receive authentic empathy from it. However, I point out that such benefit usually comes with the price of a consuming and grinding maintenance of friendship that suck people's energy, leaving them little space for happiness. I mean, to maintain is to share a lot of relevant information so as to let old friends make sense of your ongoing life experience. Compared to such process, new friendship renders it all unnecessary because your new friends know and understand your ongoing circumstances relatively well than old friends. You get more chance of doing fun things and gaining happiness with new friends.
Overall, I argue that the ability to make many new friends is more important for one's happiness than the ability to maintain friendship with a small number of people over time. My reasons are threefold that include the easiness of the first option, its benefit of bringing novelty into one's life that is essential for happiness, and far more chance of doing interesting things together that brings joys.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, as to, for instance, i mean, i think, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2698.0 1977.66487455 136% => OK
No of words: 550.0 407.700716846 135% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90545454545 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56660047856 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438181818182 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 816.3 618.680645161 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.038430644 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.416666667 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9166666667 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.45110844103 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.5376344086 181% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 11.8709677419 194% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.439787989809 0.236089414692 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144425586778 0.076458572812 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12672547052 0.0737576698707 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.292755576257 0.150856017488 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0713409496846 0.0645574589148 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.