Food and Happiness
Elda Gonzalez
Non-Fiction
29 April 2025
Can money buy you happiness?
Food and Happiness
Money can buy me happiness since it can allow me to buy many things. Money can provide many foods that may allow bonding.
My mom has organized parties for my dad and has made his favorite dish for his birthday. My mom bought the ingredients for the menudo. She also bought side dishes and ate them with menudo . My mom also set up the place where we celebrated his birthday. We celebrated his birthday with a tres leches cake and a chocoflan. We were happy with the food from the party, and we enjoyed and appreciated her food.We also attend other parties, and my aunt sometimes cooks food for parties. We also like to go for lunch and like to talk over dinner. We value this time to get closer. Sometimes we don’t talk over dinner. However, sharing food allows us to bond.
Sometimes, my mom buys us snacks. We try to limit ourselves on the junk food we eat. Sometimes, we finish them too quickly. However, these snacks motivate me to do other work. They are like rewards. However, sometimes I eat too much unhealthy food.
I also enjoy meeting with my friends and buying food with them. Usually, we like to go to greenstreet to buy food. The last meeting we had was after we took the ACT. We planned to meet after we bought our food. We bought food, and we ate together and talked. We enjoyed meeting with each other.
Money also allows people to reach each other. It closes the distance between people through phones and transportation. My family visits my maternal family during summer. We travel long distances. We are able to spend time with family. Money also provides the devices in which I can communicate with them.
However, money can’t buy emotions. Emotions are created over time, bonding, and other factors. Money may provide the circumstances in which feelings may deepen such as trips that allow people to spend time with each other or birthday parties in which people celebrate a person they care for. However, feelings are not only affected by money. Feelings can allow you to form connections with people and allow many other opportunities such as pursuing things you are passionate about such as goals.
However, money is unnecessary to bond with people. Money is not needed to spend time with friends, and spending time with them allows them to get closer.
Money can bring people together and allow them to bond over food. Money is necessary to provide food to people and allows people to feel happiness. Money is necessary to provide food to people and food can bring people together and allow them to bond.
Hi Elda! I really like the topic of money, food, and bonding, and it was really nice seeing all the examples you talk about. I like how you cover bonding and happiness in different contexts (like with family or friends). I liked the buildup of family bonding a lot, but I was curious to learn more about the details of food and bonding with friends. You can maybe also experiment more with varying sentence length a bit, and focusing more on emotional/reflective details throughout that dive deeper into how food brings people together and you feel with people you love. I liked the nuance you introduce at the end, but parts of it felt a bit contradictory (ex. money is unnecessary then money is necessary), and I feel like you could maybe revise the last few sentences to be a bit less repetitive. Overall I really like all the memories you show the reader throughout the essay, and it was fun to read!
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ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting essay toppling a complex question. I do think it could have used more duality. throughout the essay. It is done great at the end, but what about the richest people in the world, is elon musk really happy? I like the connection with food and phones as it is something that we all can connect with. I also like you made the observation that why you like food (at times) is due to the connections that you can gain from it. overall great essay!
I love your take on this prompt! Food is such a powerful bonding tool, and I really like all the content you included! For formatting, I think maybe delaying your jumping off point could be beneficial to have a more structured introduction. I really like the nuances you bring up about how money isn't necessary for bonding and happiness, but it does make it easier/more accessible. Since most of the essay focuses specifically on food, I do find the paragraph about how money helps people reach each other a bit out of place, despite it being a very valid point. I think maybe replacing that with some more expansion in the reflection at the end could make the essay more focused. Overall, the theme of bonding with food and family/friend relationships is very sweet, and this was a very good read!!
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