Close friendships do not just happen. Many of us struggle to develop quality connections. When it comes to whether having a good time together or helping a friend solve a problem contributes to a stronger friendship, in my case, I think the latter is more effective because it prompts more attention to each other and provides more opportunities for listening and further communication.
First, the process of helping a friend solve a problem involves staying focused on each other, which serves to strengthen the friendship. Unlike dealing with a friend's suffering, playing together may have your eyes on the fun itself more than on having fun together with friends, such as spotting a new bag while shopping or watching a movie together in spectacular scenes. However, when you help a friend solve a problem, you may not look into your own relevant story or other things unrelated to your friend, but instead, concentrate on your friend's situation until they feel better. This kind of attention to your friend will help them feel genuinely cared for and understood, which in turn may boost mutual bonding.
Furthermore, a warm listening process is essential to strengthening the friendship relationship, which is the main procedure when helping a friend solve a problem. Oftentimes, there may be plenty of companions who can laugh together, and often very few friends who are actually ready to listen to them. Ask your friend what is wrong, and then listen carefully to the answer. Let them vent their fears, frustrations, and other important feelings, maintain eye contact, show that you are interested in what they have to say, and offer suggestions when asked. This kind of companionship is more likely to deepen the relationship by making your friend trust and depend on you more than if you were playing and laughing together.
Last but not least, after listening, the process of helping friends brainstorm solutions will facilitate mutual communication and further exploration of possible approaches. You can take a quiet moment with your friend, away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd, and help your friend brainstorm on a specific issue. You can work together on some feasible ideas and examine their pros and cons, exchanging opinions with each other. Of course, this does not mean that you go about judging your friend's behavior at will, but rather that you should leave the ownership to your friend, as it is their business after all. Such intimate communication will make your friends feel supported and respected, thus deepening your friendship.
In summary, considering more attention to each other, more listening and communication processes, helping friends solve problems, and providing support will be more beneficial to deepen the friendship than just laughing together.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, then, thus, while, after all, i think, in summary, kind of, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2359.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 453.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20750551876 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81718529708 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529801324503 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.86738351254 428% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.8901449152 48.9658058833 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.055555556 100.406767564 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1666666667 20.6045352989 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 5.45110844103 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => 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: 0.316757768668 0.236089414692 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110451208826 0.076458572812 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695677752648 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196919638924 0.150856017488 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384014588959 0.0645574589148 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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