It's not uncommon that friends play a significant role in our life: they comfort us when we have negative feelings, share the shining moment with us and help us when we encounter adversities, etc. Recently, there is an vibrant debate among a vast majority of people over whether maintaining a few friends but known for a long time or making new friends as many as possible is of great benefits in terms of happiness. Personally, I insist that having a few friends over an extended period is more important. I feel this way for three main reasons, and I will develop these ideas in subsequent paragraphs.
Firstly, as the old adage goes, a friend in need is a friend indeed. Undoubtedly, old friends offer the longest company, while fair weather friends invariable come and go. Especially, when you are crippled by adversities, your old friends will never disappear until you come back to normal, and once you need their company again, without any doubt they immediately show up. These kind of bonds enable us to be happy-go-lucky since their support and care. Thus, old friends is irreplaceable and there is no reason that we don't maintain this friendship.
Secondly, a long-term friendship is stable. While old friends can have the same tastes and aesthetic, it's likely that you share no common interests with your new friends. In general sense, the foundation of a new friendship could be simply based on occasions in a party or a bar. Therefore, it will ends up easier. By contrast, a long-term friendship is hard to break up regardless of space or quarrels. On the other hand, you could have no idea of your new friends’ motivations to start a friendship with you. Maybe they do this deliberately. It's undeniable that someone makes friends just for the sake of benefits.
Finally, having funny time with old friends but in a small number is worthy. Making friends that is not what it looks like superficially, however is time-consuming because you have to dedicate plenty of time to promote the connections. As the number of friends grows, there is no way of developing stronger bonds with all your friends. Thus, instead of wasting time on adding the numbers of friends, it's more important to cultivate the connections with your old friend such as having a drink or play computer games together. What should be emphasized is that it's the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
In sum, if you really want to gain happiness, maintaining old friends albeit in small number is always the wise choice
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Suggestion: excise
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Suggestion: it's; it is
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, well, for example, i feel, in general, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 52.1666666667 67% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.0752688172 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1773.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 368.0 407.700716846 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81793478261 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45246484697 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576086956522 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 618.680645161 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.07504219 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.5909090909 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7272727273 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.324022570558 0.236089414692 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0964812707529 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528472950886 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183678159499 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345669727298 0.0645574589148 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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