Neverending pursuit.
Last weekend I watched a DVD of The Art of Getting By. It's a good movie. The themes are familiar: teenage love, personal struggle and the individual search for meaning. Freddie Highmore plays his chracter very well. A misanthrope preoccupied with the meaning of life, or lack thereof, he neglects schoolwork saying that it's all pointless. He makes brazen decisions and comments and ultimately endangers his academic career. He's not a bad kid. He's just telling like it is. Unfortunately, that's frowned upon coming from a high school student. He befriends one of the most popular girls in school, played by Emma Roberts. Their friendship takes a weird direction which he doesn't handle very well. When he finally decided to get it together, he pulls of what people might say impossible.
There's a line in the movie that said that happiness is something that you have to take care of. How very true. I believe that happiness is pursued. I believe that it's not handed over to you, I belieave it's something that you have to search for and then when found, you fight for it. Then after it's won, you have to protect it. The job never ends.
When bad things happen, your happiness is threatened. When life deals the first blow we buckle down and it's so damn hard to get up. But this is what they mean about taking care of your happiness. It may slip away for a bit, you have have fight like hell to get it back. Not everyone is strong enough, though. It's easy to give in and give up. The people who keep fighting are awesome. I don't know where they get their energy, their inspiration, what is it that keeps them going? What's mine? I need to get a handle on that since it feels like my fights are too difficult.
Anyway, what we should remember is this: No one is going to give you your happiness. Even if someone could you have to able to let them. That's hard too. It's all on you.
There's a line in the movie that said that happiness is something that you have to take care of. How very true. I believe that happiness is pursued. I believe that it's not handed over to you, I belieave it's something that you have to search for and then when found, you fight for it. Then after it's won, you have to protect it. The job never ends.
When bad things happen, your happiness is threatened. When life deals the first blow we buckle down and it's so damn hard to get up. But this is what they mean about taking care of your happiness. It may slip away for a bit, you have have fight like hell to get it back. Not everyone is strong enough, though. It's easy to give in and give up. The people who keep fighting are awesome. I don't know where they get their energy, their inspiration, what is it that keeps them going? What's mine? I need to get a handle on that since it feels like my fights are too difficult.
Anyway, what we should remember is this: No one is going to give you your happiness. Even if someone could you have to able to let them. That's hard too. It's all on you.