It is more important to keep old friends than it is to make new friends.
Some people might posit that it is better to make new friends than stick to your old ones as you get to expand your social circle. However, I stongly disagree and feel that it is important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends. I am going to explain this by giving three examples.
To begin with, it is better to maintain relationship with old friends because you have memories with them. Remembering those memories of spending fun and happy time together always gives a good feeling. For instance, a friend of mine who I met in my primary school, Bob, is still friends with me. In fact, he is one of my very good friends. Often we spend time together and talk about the fun activites that we used to together while attending the school. However, if I were to talk about these childhood memories with a new friend then he may or may not be receptive. He may not feel the experience that I had as a kid. Thus, it is good to have a friend who was there with you enjoying that time.
Secondly, if you have an old friend, you most probably know each other well enough. You already know what kind of things the other person likes or dislikes. To illustrate, the friends I made in graduate school don't know enough about me than my high school friends know. This is because I have spent more time with my high school friends and old friends are important to me. Now, someone was to ask one of my new friends about my favourite video game, they might be clueless. This explains that it is good to have healthy relationship with your old friends.
Thirdly, one always feels more comfortable talking with a old friend than with a new one. You often tend to trust your old friend and there is no awkwardness. You can be more open to your old friends. In case of new friends, you need time to trust each other. It takes time to become comfortable and share personal experiences. There is always some sort of reluctant feeling with new friends as you have known each other for only a short time.
To conclude, few people can argue that its important to make new friends as you get to have a bigger social circle. Nevertheless, I think that it is equally important to maintain a good and healthy relationship with old friends as you have already had that friendship and bond of trust for a long time which only gets better over time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, as to, for instance, i think, in fact, kind of, sort of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 43.0788530466 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => 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: 1924.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 434.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.4331797235 4.8611393121 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35649296643 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.430875576037 0.524837075471 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 573.3 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9409293146 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.96 100.406767564 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.36 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88 5.45110844103 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 24.0 11.8709677419 202% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.37542875165 0.236089414692 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120462609506 0.076458572812 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125619982487 0.0737576698707 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25516964286 0.150856017488 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109408030328 0.0645574589148 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.1 11.7677419355 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 79.6 58.1214874552 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.1575268817 63% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.12 10.9000537634 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.23 8.01818996416 78% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 86.8835125448 55% => More difficult words wanted.
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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