“Only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness.”
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Human beings are emotional creatures. We experience myriad of emotions on a quotidian basis, and struggle to deal with them in a rational sense. Among-st these emotions the most prominent ones are sadness and happiness. The prompt suggests that we can feel the true happiness only when we have felt the real sadness. History has shown that humans tend to take things for granted, just like the saying in a famous adage, 'humans tend to value things only when they lose it'. In my opinion, I strongly agree with this suggestion and argue that humans will realize the value of happiness only when they have felt the void of it for three reasons.
To begin with, most things in the world are perceived as binary. For example, good exists because of evil, we appreciate beauty when we compare it with it's ugly counterpart. This shows that we tend to give importance to the value of a subject only when there is a negative counterpart to compare it with. For instance, in an ideal world where everybody is rich, and everyone is receiving an equal amount of money for any work that they do, and everybody has the same standard of living, then there would be no value to money at all. Extending this to the concept of emotions, if we do not experience sadness then we would not understand the true value of happiness.
Furthermore, the way emotions are perceived is relative. That is, it varies for each individual. For example, providing a box full of delicious cupcakes to a rich spoiled kid, would not make that kid as happy as providing the same box of cupcakes to a poor kid who has been starving for past two days. Only when there is a void of something, do we realize it's value. The same object can result in different level of satisfaction and happiness, based on the situation the person is in and the things the person has been through. Thus, when a person has known real sadness, he or she will be able to truly appreciate the feeling of happiness once they are able to solve their problems that's causing them melancholy.
In addition to the above examples, it is also observed that when humans lack a certain feeling or an object, they tend to strive towards the best to achieve that object or to eradicate the negative feeling. That is, if they have been feeling low for quite some time because of low grades, or unhealthy lifestyle, humans tend to improve on their grades or the lifestyle in order to feel better. The negative feelings gives them the strength to improve on themselves. This shows that sadness might be a factor humans will tend to work hard to achieve the happiness that they deserve and will be able to enjoy it in a much elated manner once its finally achieved.
In the right of above deliberation, the authors claim that only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness is justified. One might argue that happiness is independent of sadness, but the above examples show that only when you have felt the true pain or the sadness will you be able to truly appreciate the meaning of happiness, else any grand gestures will not entice the person to be happier.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 440, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ount of money for any work that they do, and everybody has the same standard of l...
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Line 5, column 684, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...e they are able to solve their problems thats causing them melancholy. In addition...
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Line 7, column 417, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[2]
Message: You should probably use 'give'.
Suggestion: give
...r to feel better. The negative feelings gives them the strength to improve on themsel...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 58.0 33.0505617978 175% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2555.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 555.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6036036036 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44346779377 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437837837838 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 805.5 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.9244296276 60.3974514979 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.086956522 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1304347826 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26086956522 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198867825261 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641747774708 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0783476836666 0.0758088955206 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133458670594 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101947322475 0.0667264976115 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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