Our Own Pursuit of Happyness

Our Own Pursuit of Happyness, originally uploaded by reasonenoughtocelebrate.

Tonight, I had my mom watch one of my favorite movies -- the Pursuit of Happyness.

I can't help but watch that movie in awe. How can I dare complain about not knowing how I want to live my life -- where I want to go, what I want to be -- and look at this man. Look at everything he struggled with. Look at where his life was and where he took it.

Look at where my life once was... Look at all of the people I've met. Loved. And continue to hold on to... even if we aren't together at the present moment. I've been blessed. And yet I still complain.

Cliche or not - every time I get to the part where Chris Gardner talks about the pursuit of happyness, I can't help but tear up as I look ahead at my own life.

"It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?" --The Pursuit of Happyness