“ People should pursue meaning, not happiness”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with this statement. Support your point of view with reasons and/ or examples from your own experience, observation or reading.
Finding happiness or meaning has become the most overrated discussion nowadays. Some people claim that pursuing happiness is the most important task in their lives, while others believe that finding meaning in life is most precious. I totally agree with this view that meaning is the most enduring thing. This essay will further elaborate on both sides and thus, will lead to a logical conclusion.
At the outset, happiness is temporary and can give few good moments in our lives. These moments are short-lived and the moment they turn into bad experiences or situations in one’s life, it gives anxiety, stress and insecurity to people. For example, getting a high paid job may bring happiness to some, but when it starts affecting them within, they become unhappy and choose more peaceful low-salaried jobs. Thus, it shows that happiness is not a lifelong phenomenon and it should be dealt with as it comes and then let it go.
In contrast, finding meaning in life is a more enduring thing and bring peace to people. This happens when people stop running into their lives and choose to stay calm and relaxed irrespective of any circumstance or situation they may face in their lives. For instance, pursuing passions can bring more mindfulness and peace to one and hardly matters whether they learn it to earn their living or not. Hence, the meaning is a more definite phenomenon and makes one composed and serene.
This essay discussed how pursuing happiness is time-bound and meaning is a more flexible and permanent approach to life. In my opinion, pursuing meaning is the only thing that we should long for in our lives, rest is just momentary.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, may, so, then, thus, while, for example, for instance, in contrast, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.5418719212 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 6.10837438424 131% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 8.36945812808 251% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 20.9802955665 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 31.9359605911 78% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.75862068966 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1381.0 1207.87684729 114% => OK
No of words: 280.0 242.827586207 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93214285714 5.00649968141 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54389776059 2.71678728327 94% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 139.433497537 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560714285714 0.580463131201 97% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 379.143842365 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5024630542 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.5366560663 50.4703680194 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6428571429 104.977214359 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.9669160288 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 7.25397266985 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 6.9802955665 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132229683274 0.242375264174 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050921823635 0.0925447433944 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455213760436 0.071462118173 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0844483736227 0.151781067708 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354212847991 0.0609392437508 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 12.6369458128 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.1260098522 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.9458128079 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 11.5310837438 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32886699507 95% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 55.0591133005 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.3980295567 96% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.5123152709 95% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 66.0 Out of 90
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