Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tony went to the bodega but He Didn't Buy Anything

Tony Went to the bodega but He Didn’t Buy Anything


Society tells us what is supposed to make us happy, but an individual needs to find their own happiness. Society is corrupt and sometimes could lead people down a wrong path. Society generalizes instead of looking at an individual as a unique person.
Tony a Puerto Rican boy who father left when he was a child. He started to work at the bodega at the age of nine where he became a man, and learned work ethics. Tony was happy working at the bodega, he practice the grin on customers. Tony enjoyed the bodega so much that he made music of his work.

Tony grew up in the Long Island city project; he got a scholarship for law school. He accomplished a lot from the project to law school. But he was unhappy; he walked around the city looking for something to fill up his emptiness.
What society thought would made Tony happy did not make him happy.

Finally Tony went to the bodega but He didn’t buy anything, he got his grin back,” he sat on the doorway satisfied to watch la gente” (people island-brown as him) he was please to see people in and out speaking Spanish like him. Tony found his home that what “a rice and beans success story “meant.

In conclusion an individual have to follow his own guts to find happiness in life not to listen to society.