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.
As social animals, we human beings rely on different kinds of relationships to gain happiness, and an important one is friendship. Some people are making new friends all the time, while others believe maintaining the existing friendships are more essential. As I see, I believe the latter one is more important for happiness.
To begin with, making new friends can be a time- and energy-consuming activity. New friends don't automatically come to your side and become friends with you, unless there's something you can help them with, especially in adult world. You need to approach them actively and talk and talk and talk. This is usually how friendships are established, and this process takes energy and time. Some may argue that talking to new people might be an enjoyment for some people, I tend to believe that what they really enjoy is being not alone, which can be also achieved by keeping deep friendship with old friends.
Secondly, if we think about how friendship turns into happiness, we could say that because friends can help us both emotionally and practically. However, this might only be the case when we talk about long-term friendships, rather than a short-term, superficial one. Imagine yourself being really upset because something unpleasant happened to you, who would you turn to for help? A friend who you just met yesterday at a party or one you've known for years? I believe most people would choose the latter option, for obvious reasons. For one thing, they know you better so are more likely to understand how you're feeling; and for another, they are the ones who really care about you and. Being understood and cared, as I see, is what cheers you up when you're down.
Then let's think about the practical issue. If you lost your wallet with all your money and cards in it, who would you borrow your money from? In most, if not all occasions, I suppose, you would ask an old friend rather than a new one. That is because you know they trust you more, thus are more likely to offer help to you. In contrast, people you just acquitted with might be worrying that you won't ever pay them back. The trust, which takes time to establish, is another merit of long-term friendship in comparison with the short-term one.
To sum up, as old friends are more likely to provide emotional as well as practical help for us, and doesn't require extra time and energy, it is more likely to contribute to our happiness. Therefore, I believe that maintaining friendships with a few people for a long time is more important.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, i suppose, in contrast, you know, as well as, for one thing, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2105.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 441.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77324263039 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57337946447 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503401360544 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 618.680645161 102% => 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: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8963834305 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5217391304 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1739130435 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.82608695652 5.45110844103 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280899895562 0.236089414692 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0953972131082 0.076458572812 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657138849224 0.0737576698707 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187080786403 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.035333872302 0.0645574589148 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.05 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.