Spending time alone is the truly best way to relax the stress.

[Karenchen]

Do you agree or disagree that: Spending time alone is the truly best way to relax the stress.

In contemporary society, people are faced with pressure that arises from all aspects of their lives. As a result, it has become increasingly important for people to find an effective way to release their stress. Some people argue that staying alone works the best as to solve the tension and stress. However, in my perspective, spending time alone is not always the most effective way to deal with pressure.

{I find the 1st sentence quite useful for exams…but is it a little bit like cliches? I am a bit worried that reviewers will be unhappy to see sentences in such stereotype.}

In my opinion, there is no universally agreed-on viewpoint on what serves as the best solution to handle stress. Instead, it is highly subjected to that specific individual’s characteristic. For some people, leaving them alone might help them calm down and make them feel better, however for other people, it might have opposite effect. There are cases that when some individuals are left alone, they just can not stop thinking about the problems that make them nervous, such as the blame from their supervisors and the unfavorable exam scores, and they would even keep focusing on the bad sides of the whole things. It is no wonder that people’s decisions of committing suicides always follow a few hours of being alone. Obviously, the time during which those people stay alone only deepens their torture and makes them even more suffering.

In fact, spending some time with friends or families sometimes works as a better way to reduce the anxiety. All too often, people’s stress will disappear after they hang out for some time with their friends, or they will find themselves replenished with energy and confidence after a deep talk with their families. Encouragement and guidance from other people, especially the ones you trust, indeed plays a key role in helping you figure out the right direction of your life.

In conclusion, I think spending time alone is not necessarily the best way to resolve the stress. For some people, what they need more is actually communication with others. In that case, they would better spend time with their friends and families rather than stay alone.

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[Luschen]

Hi, another great essay. The prompt sounds odd with “the”, as to me we are talking about stress in general and not a particular stress - i.e. “relieve the stress from work”. Also, we don’t relax stress, we relieve it or reduce it. Hopefully the prompt at the actual test will be more correct!

@Karenchen

Do you agree or disagree that: Spending time alone is the truly best way to relax the stress.

In contemporary society, people are faced with pressure that arises from all aspects of their lives. As a result, it has become increasingly important for people to find an effective way to release their stress. Some people argue that staying alone works the best as to solve the tension and stress.{“to solve the tension and stress” could be better} However, in my perspective, spending time alone is not always the most effective way to deal with pressure.

{I find the 1st sentence quite useful for exams…but is it a little bit like cliches? I am a bit worried that reviewers will be unhappy to see sentences in such stereotype.} {I agree that it is somewhat of a cliche. Obviously, the best way would be to have a unique introduction for each topic, but that takes a lot of time and effort - time that is probably better spent on your body paragraphs, which I think are more important than the intro. At this point, since your exam is so close, I would just keep doing what you are doing - for a “template sentence” is does sound pretty good.}

In my opinion, there is no universally agreed-on viewpoint on what serves as the best solution to handle stress. Instead, it is highly subjected to that specific individual’s characteristic[s ] {“personality” seems better}. For some people, leaving them alone might help them calm down and make them feel better, however for other people, it might have [the] opposite effect. There are cases that [in which] when some individuals are left alone, they just can not stop thinking about the problems that make them nervous, such as the blame from their supervisors and the unfavorable exam scores, and they would even keep focusing{or “would continue fixating on”} on the bad sides of the whole things. {try to avoid using “things” - it usually means you couldn’t come up with a better word - here you could say “situations”} It is no wonder that people’s decisions of committing suicides [to commit suicide] always follow a few hours of being alone. Obviously, the time during which those people stay alone only deepens their torture and makes them [suffer] even more suffering.{or “and heightens their suffering even more”}

In fact, spending some time with friends or families {“with friends and/or family” is the idiom, so using “families” sounds a little off} sometimes works as a better way to reduce the anxiety.{you haven’t really mentioned a particular anxiety yet in this paragraph} All too often, people’s stress will disappear after they hang out for some time with their friends, or they will find themselves replenished with energy and confidence after a deep talk with their families. Encouragement and guidance from other people, especially the ones you trust, indeed plays a key role in helping you figure out the right direction of your life.{I have no problem with this, but I have heard that some graders don’t like the use of “you”, as it sounds too informal and would prefer the use of the third person if at all possible}

In conclusion, I think spending time alone is not necessarily the best way to resolve the stress. For some people, what they need more is actually communication with others. In that case, they would [be] better [off] spend[ing] time with their friends and families rather than stay[ing] alone.

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