Pursuit of Happyness

---another entry transferred from msn spaces---

I just watched ths show yesterday with Rus at great world. So is it a good movie? well if its motive was to invoke thoughts of what happiness is in our lives and how are we pursuing it. Then yes. If its to meant to be inspirational, to show the perseverance of human character, the strive, the rising from one's lowest point in lives. Then yes. however Rus said certain events was over dramatised, e.g. the scene where Will smith and his son had to sleep in the toilet. But ain't what movies are like? don't they always seem to exaggerate scenes? a particular film technique to emphasise on an emotion? storyline? moment of the movie? Perhaps i don't watched enough shows but i feel there were also other very subtle moments in the show that portrayed the movie, storyline and purpose. I especially like the scene when Will Smith went for his internship interview, the boss of the company asked him what would his response be if he saw a guy who walked into an interview without a shirt

Smith's reply was "he must be wearing some very good pants!"

So what thoughts did it invoke in me? the notion that if u give someone an opportunity to escape from his current situation, or perhaps escape is not the right word, but change might be better. He would grab it but i believe opportunities also have to be evaluated before grabbing it or so what i felt i learnt because Smith thought that the opportunity of being the sole seller of the scanner in the city would have brought him change but he only realized after buying the scanners to resell it that it wasn't as wonderful as it would be. He struggled to sell them off, bringing misery to his wife who left him for new york. So to learn from this, we must not blindly follow and grab opportunities but we must evaluate them, how would it work for us? how would we work it out? what would it be like at the end? what would the process be like? etc etc...

And so what about happyness, what do we make of it? what is happyness to us? A question as old as the world perhaps? and what does it means to me? I told Rus that if i have kids, and to make a minor correction to that statement, i want to have kids. Then happyness would be to watch my kids grow, nurturing them, guiding them, being there for them, loving, giving them good nutrition and not feeding them sweets everyday. To love them, to have healthy Father-Son or Father-daughter relationships. Why? because perhaps of my background, something too personal to share here. someday perhaps.

to add on, that would be a source of happyness, what about other sources? one would be helping people in whatever way i can. help people? who? people i love, my family, my relatives, my friends, my church mates. poeple around me. Why? as i told Rus, i need to and want to value relationships, i believe its a very important component of life, people relationships. Other relationships are important too, e.g. relationships with cultures, diversity, nature and money.

What abt the pursuit? life is the pursuit, the journey of life is the pursuit. So how would u define happyness? such as the diversity of life, we all perhaps have different definitions, some might be the same and at the end of the day, we got to define it and pursue it. and well we all different pursuits, kind of what is similar to my previous blog entry, what are u chasing after today? is it worth chasing after?

Love

Eric