Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.
Men of letters often depict youth as energetic, healthy and promising, but old age as a gloomy end to which no one is looking forward. Ancient memories from a younger age seems to be the only comfort to those who bid farewell to the careers that they devoted their lives to. Nonetheless, the current circumstance clouds my judgement of whether it is the young or the old who enjoy life more.
Were it 20 years ago, I would have arbitrarily claimed that the young definitely enjoy life more than old people do. In my naivety, I thought, and I believe most people in their twenties would, that the world would embrace us with its endless challenges, excitements, and most of all, meanings of living. Like many, I wasn’t aware that reality isn’t as promising as what has been depicted in the fictions, until it slapped me in the face.
Of course, I am not speaking for myself alone. This insanely competitive world has sucked so dry the youth out of the younger generation that what’s left in their lives is merely tedious, meaningless labor. Sudden deaths caused by overloaded work, financial burdens ridiculously imposed by the housing market, and the unforeseeable return of upbringing offspring are strangling the working young. And those who happen to enjoy a little freedom, both financially and spiritually, cannot escape from the fate of being intoxicated by consumerism, which has set up an illusion of enjoyment.
Surrounded by this illusion, young people are made to think that they are enjoying life when they add something to the shopping cart. To think more deeply, isn’t it quite pathetic that our most celebrated enjoyment occurs only when we are making purchases? A luxury bag, sure. A fancy car, hell yeah. Deprived of individuality and humanity, the young, namely the still working, are molded into wealth generators in this morbid system.
But after a few decades in this world, everything changes. The accumulated age has reshaped the view of life. People start to look back and search for meanings, as if there were any, for the ordeal they have gone through when they were young, and for long-lost memories to justified the worthiness of the hardship.
Now the answer to the question who enjoy life more has completely eluded me, but I am certain the young enjoy no more than the old, because the old have been accustomed to the reality and got through the worst part, while the young are still in shock and suffering from it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, nonetheless, so, still, well, while, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2050.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 420.0 315.596192385 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88095238095 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6105706972 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 176.041082164 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 0.809619238477 988% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.89625217 49.4020404114 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.894736842 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1052631579 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21052631579 7.06120827912 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131728709508 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0362340428558 0.084324248473 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480292180279 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0693663355596 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329087168701 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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