She:Man...its sooo tiring. Why do I have to have such a frantic social life!
He:Have a lot of friends huh?(smiling...genuinely earnestly curious...or a great actor!)
She:I guess!(rolls her eyes)
Me:...(in my head...):Um...no...she's just schizophrenic...
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Pursuit of Happyness
There are moments in time, when I wish I could sprout wings and fly away, destination undecided, when I actually feel restricted, constrained by my body. These are usually the kinda days when I smile like an idiot at vague strangers on the street and don't even care that they probably think I'm loony.Today was that kinda day, you didn't relly need to know that by the way.Just random gyan...
Watched this beeeeautiful brilliant animation movie called Balto in the morning, which is about this part-wolf mongrel that saved the Alaskan town of Nome in the 1930s by successfully delivering a package of diphtheria vaccine...it's seen through the eyes of a child who was actually saved back then...which makes it that much more personal and that much more touching.And I'm a sucker for happy endings and heroes...and dogs...so I genuinely loved this film...
that I had chocolate fudge to go with it might have made things that much better...
And then there was pursuit of happyness...and no its actually meant to be spelt that way...the verb reference. There is one question asked in the middle of this movie that really got me...
In the USA's Declaration of Independence, this statement actually exists
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Why is it called the 'pursuit' of happiness...did they know that it would have to be pursued? that the attainment of it was not a certainty?
What is true actual happiness?...It's usually just that one moment when you realise that your current circumstances, which(if) you perceive them as constraining are going to change. Just that one moment when you've gotten that job, gotten into that college you wanted to go to, closed a deal...its actually a momentary thing- happiness. Because, lets face it working at that firm of studying at that college is not really gift-wrapped eternal bliss...
and if this true, why do we pursue it at such a frantic pace?Is it true?
Watched this beeeeautiful brilliant animation movie called Balto in the morning, which is about this part-wolf mongrel that saved the Alaskan town of Nome in the 1930s by successfully delivering a package of diphtheria vaccine...it's seen through the eyes of a child who was actually saved back then...which makes it that much more personal and that much more touching.And I'm a sucker for happy endings and heroes...and dogs...so I genuinely loved this film...
that I had chocolate fudge to go with it might have made things that much better...
And then there was pursuit of happyness...and no its actually meant to be spelt that way...the verb reference. There is one question asked in the middle of this movie that really got me...
In the USA's Declaration of Independence, this statement actually exists
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Why is it called the 'pursuit' of happiness...did they know that it would have to be pursued? that the attainment of it was not a certainty?
What is true actual happiness?...It's usually just that one moment when you realise that your current circumstances, which(if) you perceive them as constraining are going to change. Just that one moment when you've gotten that job, gotten into that college you wanted to go to, closed a deal...its actually a momentary thing- happiness. Because, lets face it working at that firm of studying at that college is not really gift-wrapped eternal bliss...
and if this true, why do we pursue it at such a frantic pace?Is it true?
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