It is better to have lots of different friends than it is to have just a few friends
There’s a famous adage that goes-”A friend in need is a friend indeed”. Friends are necessary to get us through the most difficult times of life. Personally, I believe it is better to have very few friends who are close to us instead of having lots of friends. I feel this way for three reasons which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, in the present world of the internet, people are willing to connect using social media but not in real life. Having more connections only in social media is not a sign of great friendship. People need to have some real friends who can help us in our troubles and share our pain. Such friendships have become rare. We need to find such friends in real life and keep them close to our hearts. My personal life experience is a compelling example of this. Back in my college days, I went into financial trouble once and my whole family couldn’t afford my college fee for that semester. Even though I’ve thousands of friends on Facebook and Instagram, none helped me but my roommate who gave me money and helped me get out of trouble. So, it is always advisable to keep our circle small and strong.
Secondly, with increase in quantity the quality gets down. Friends are our primary influencers after the family members, so good friends will make our life beautiful. Whenever the friends circle is large, it includes people of different attitudes and characters. A bad fruit can spoil hundred good fruits. Similarly, a friend with a negative attitude can influence our life in a bad way. For example, one of my friends named Vasanth was a brilliant student till his schooling, but soon he entered the college he made friendship with a person called Madhav who is an alcoholic. Within no time, Vasanth got addicted to alcohol, cigars and eventually spoiled his entire career. So we need to be very careful while choosing friends.
Finally, Our life is a one time blessing. We need to enjoy it to the maximum and it is possible only when we have time to spend with our friends. Keeping our friend circle small will ensure that we give time to each and every friend of ours. People would often feel lonely when they are not with their friends and it is easier to keep in touch with them when there are few friends. To illustrate, when I was in college I used to have a lot of friends and whenever we plan a trip to somewhere, it used to get cancelled because of problems with few people and we never happened to go on a trip. These are the kinds of problems that come with managing lots of people. But now, I have very few close friends and we go on trip whenever we want to. This clearly shows how important it is to have a stronger and smaller friend circle.
In conclusion, I’m of the opinion that it is always better to have fewer friends. This is because it helps to keep the friendship, maintain a good quality friend circle, and ensure some quality time with each of our friends.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, while, for example, i feel, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 70.0 43.0788530466 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2417.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 535.0 407.700716846 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.51775700935 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41403587795 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471028037383 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 740.7 618.680645161 120% => 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: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9046730903 48.9658058833 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.9677419355 100.406767564 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2580645161 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.64516129032 5.45110844103 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less 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: 0.339193893371 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0966836161101 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0982141336373 0.0737576698707 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218707296631 0.150856017488 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0971239312079 0.0645574589148 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 11.7677419355 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 58.1214874552 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 10.1575268817 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.64 10.9000537634 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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