It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends.
No one can deny the fact that friends make our lives better, easier and funnier. Friends are known to comfort you during trying times, to make you laugh during sad times, to party with you to celebrate an occassion and so much more. I believe that the quality of friendship does not depend on the amount of time they are in contact with you. In other words, no, I do not think that it is more important to keep old friends than it is to make new friends due to the following reasons.
The first reason is that there is no guarantee that an old friend will be more helpful to you as compared to a new friend. All the qualities people look for in friends depend only on the type of person he or she is and not on the amount of time you have known each other. For instance, last month I was facing some financial difficulties due to a major loss in my startup and needed some help to get through the month. I could not ask for money from my parents since they have already done enough for me. So I asked one of my old friends from school to help me and he denied without a thought. Then I was surprised when someone, whom I don't even know that well, volunteered to help me. When I asked, he said that he trusts me and believes that I will return his money on time.
There has to be a connection and a feeling of trust between two people to remain friends. That trust does not depend on the age of the relationship. That trust can be made with ease and also, can be broken with ease. In other words, friendships might break if someone breaks the trust of another person even if they were childhood friends. All I am saying is that, age of the relationship is independent of the quality of friends you have.
For example, one of my childhood friends, Rahul, lied to me about something. Some years ago, I was going through a break-up and was extremely down hearted. I called Rahul to see if he could spend some time with me and have a little fun. But after talking to him, I found out that he was the reason for my break-up. He was jealous of me for being happy, so he created discrepencies between my girlfriend and I, and hence broke my trust. I could not forgive him for what he did. He broke my trust in an instant and along with that, broke the childhood friendhship too.
All I am saying is that, there is no ensuring that an old friend will stay with you forever and a new friend will not. People change, relationships change and this does not mean that we should not make new friends. Life is all about knowing new people and learning new things. So, in conclusion, making new friends is as important as keeping old friends.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, look, so, then, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 43.0788530466 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => 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: 2137.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 502.0 407.700716846 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.25697211155 4.8611393121 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30604771542 2.67179642975 86% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464143426295 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 631.8 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.3936660956 48.9658058833 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 79.1481481481 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5925925926 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 5.45110844103 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283671750801 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0906055019395 0.076458572812 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155482283899 0.0737576698707 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192523830245 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.167174881023 0.0645574589148 259% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.9 11.7677419355 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 78.59 58.1214874552 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.1575268817 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.43 10.9000537634 68% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.39 8.01818996416 80% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 86.8835125448 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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