Pursuit of happyness

Just caught the show ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ starring Will Smith.

You may or may not have watched the show because it was shown in cinemas last year(2006). The story revolves around the life of Chris Gardner, a person who literally took life by it’s horns and challenged it head on.

Chris Gardner started off as a struggling salesman desperately attempting to make ends meet selling a ‘mobile bone density sensor system’ (something like a more advanced x-ray machine). After he bumps into a young, hotshot broker who seems to have made it, he starts questioning life. The show then goes on to show how he fights each challenge, with his son (his wife left him because she no longer believed in him), from homelessness and penniless to putting up with an obnoxious superior.

This show left a huge impression on me because of what Chris Gardner said. It is the kind of feeling you get after going through a series of motivational/inspiring talks. It is this kind of feeling that makes you feel indestructible and unstoppable. It is this very feeling that is responsible for many successful people in the world!

‘You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.’

That was what he said. It sure left a huge impression on me. Especially the part about us having the ability to dream and to actually achieve it! If you set your mind and heart to it, don’t let fear or the words of others bring you down. Period.

I hope you’ll get a chance to catch the movie because I’m sure glad I did! (Kudos to Zhenyuan for it!)

Till next time.
p.s. i know some of you are waiting for more posts on my hols! will write it soon!