Good evening I bid to madam chairperson, honourable adjudicators, dedicated timekeeper, my

worthy opponents and the members of the floor. The motion for today is this house believes that
money can buy happiness. We the opposition team strongly disagree with this motion. Before I
begin with my points

Can money buy happiness

Money can’t buy happiness because it strains oneself too much that it destroys other life domains

It uses up most of the time and a person can’t have quality time with his or her family. We would
have to work hard to earn the money.it is unbalanced . you’ll use a lot of pain in order to earn
money to buy happiness. You will have to be in pain for a long time and happy for a short time. It’s
not worth it. How about being grateful for what we have and spend some quality time with our
families instead. It would bring more happiness through “experiences”.

Being grateful can make someone happier. If someone is ungrateful, no matter how much money he
has, he will still not be happy. You would want more and more and will never be enough. If someone
is being grateful, he will be happy no matter how less he has. A research has been conducted in 2019
that people being grateful tend to be happier than ungrateful. We can write thank you notes.

Research on gratitude
Two psychologists, Dr. Robert A. Emmons of the University of California, Davis, and
Dr. Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami, have done much of the
research on gratitude. In one study, they asked all participants to write a few
sentences each week, focusing on particular topics.

One group wrote about things they were grateful for that had occurred during the
week. A second group wrote about daily irritations or things that had displeased
them, and the third wrote about events that had affected them (with no emphasis on
them being positive or negative). After 10 weeks, those who wrote about gratitude
were more optimistic and felt better about their lives. Surprisingly, they also
exercised more and had fewer visits to physicians than those who focused on
sources of aggravation.