Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
"A friend in need is a friend indeed." I believe this definition stands quite well with the friends who prioritize us before anything else, like friends from our school or college life. The saying might not be very suitable when applied to the aquaintances we bond with during our, let's say, professional journey. Therefore, I agree that it is more important to keep our old friends than it is to make new friends. In what follows, this essay will explore a few points to help explain the reasons behind my stand.
To begin with, it is customary to mention here that considering the old friends are the ones we grow up or befriend during our early ages, they are more aware of our sense of justice. Hence, it can be asserted that they tend to be wiser in rendering advice to the concerned individual and be a better guide. For example, a study was undertaken by the Psychology department of the University of Calcutta, a couple of years back. Results showed that people who are acquainted with the individual since they were young, happens to rightfully portray the individual's characteristics than the people who meet the individual later in their lifetime.
Secondly, owing to the length of time old friends spend with an individual, they can see through all the nuances of the concerned. Therefore, in a world where everyone is ready to force their opinion on to each other, old friends relieve us from unnecessary judgements. Let me share my personal experience here. My best friend, whom I happen to connect with since my pre-school, did not dump her opinions all over me when I mentioned her about leaving my job to chase my dreams. She calming listened to my whining. Unlike the new friends who made me quite pessimistic with their negative thoughts on my risky venture.
Last but not least, while it comes to sharing our deepest thoughts and secrets, we always end up trusting our old buddies to the newer ones. Recent friends are hard to be fathomed when it comes to their attitude to keeping secrets. For instance, who knows, they might exploit our ideas for an office promotion. My friend had pitched an idea for the official seminar and discussed with her roommate who works in the same place, hoping for a few tips, ended up stealing her concept.
To put it in a nutshell, life happens to take us to new places, land us in new job opportunities, makes us plan new adventures and many more, and that is everywhere we connect with people and bond over friendship. Yet the ones we meet early, are the ones with whom we share our roller-coaster journey of life and can be relied upon with every bone in our body. And this is why I must say, nothing can stand in comparison to the relationship we have with our old friends.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, as for, for example, for instance, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 43.0788530466 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 52.1666666667 144% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2269.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 485.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67835051546 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62541192128 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538144329897 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 699.3 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.282379898 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.047619048 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0952380952 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2380952381 5.45110844103 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258018904208 0.236089414692 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.084379636438 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110735139731 0.0737576698707 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150970366345 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.07986133112 0.0645574589148 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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