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.
A glance at people's attitudes toward friendship brings to the light a question that has been asked several times, namely, whether it is more important for your happiness to keep your close friends over a long period or to make many new friends easily. Although some people state that a large group of friends can bring you joy and satisfaction, I, as a person with a lot of friends with different cultures and nationalities, believe the opposite. Life taught me to maintain my close friends despite distances and difficulties, to have more respect and love through my short lifetime.
The foremost reason why I am supporting this idea lies in the fact that we cannot know people completely unless after hardships and troubles. All people are nice, kind, and reliable when you are wealthy, happy, and server, but when you encounter a problem, only your true friends stand by you to support and help you. I passed this lesson from life several years ago when I came to the United State, and I had no acquaintance in the new town. It was really hard for me to communicate with people, and I was alone at home most of the time. Gradually, I started to come out of my cave and made some friends at our local church. Everything was great until I had an important exam and nobody agreed to take care of my daughter for four hours. At the end, one of my former friends drove two hours from another city to assist me with the complicated situation. I cannot forget her help and kindness even until death. Therefore, even if all people around the world are your friends, none of them protects you except close friends.
Another subtle point that I should deem is the fact that our time and energy are limited, and we cannot put a lot of energy and money on finding new friends. When I was younger, most of my classmates called me when they needed a person to consult with, and I always sacrificed myself to make them happy. After one year, my scores dropped dramatically, and I understood it is not possible to aid all people I know. I have to concentrate on my responsibilities and prioritize critical tasks. If a person wants to be successful, he must recognize what is crucial and what is not. As a matter of fact, being a consultant is not our job, and we cannot solve all problems that people face. Thus, having diverse friends get you in more troubles than bring you happiness and affection.
Admittedly, loose connections with different people are essential when it comes to finding jobs. As a business student, all of our professors recommend us to maintain our relationship with our colleagues because one day, we need one person to assist us with more knowledge and experience. When I wanted to find a job, one of my teammates in the economy course referred me to his company, and they hired me. These types of connections are really important in the United state. Nevertheless, I still think it is slightly different from true friendship because we do not have any obligations in loose connections. Indeed, when we are not required to spend a lot of time to keep relationships is desirable.
Due to the aforementioned arguments explored in the previous statements, I highly recommend people to stick to their close friends and do not waste their time for new relationships. My experience proves that there are a few benefits of having numerous friends compared to its disadvantages.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 83, Rule ID: KNOW_NOW[5]
Message: Did you mean 'now'?
Suggestion: now
...is idea lies in the fact that we cannot know people completely unless after hardship...
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Line 5, column 291, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... friends compared to its disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, nevertheless, really, so, still, therefore, thus, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 13.8261648746 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 85.0 43.0788530466 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2793.0 1977.66487455 141% => OK
No of words: 595.0 407.700716846 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69411764706 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93888872473 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76147802682 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 212.727598566 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512605042017 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 873.9 618.680645161 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.86738351254 536% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6798428272 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.444444444 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.037037037 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.88888888889 5.45110844103 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.247265787461 0.236089414692 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597254586887 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551518140052 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146254907593 0.150856017488 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615083785494 0.0645574589148 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => 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: 9.92 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 86.8835125448 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => 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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