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Posted on 03/03/2012 11:15:19 AM PST by greywar
Last night I watched "The Pursuit of Happyness". It was an adorable movie about dedication and perseverance to a dream, overcoming the odds to become successful. This dad loses everything and ends up sleeping in a bathroom in a subway station with his five-year-old boy, but they struggle through and end up multi-millionaires.
The story is cute and inspiring, but what really stuck with me about this movie was the mother’s story. She hates her life. She is tired of struggling, wondering if they can catch up on the back rent and the IRS payments, working double shifts and trying to be a wife and mother. I can really feel for her frustration, but what I don’t understand is what happens next.
She quits.
Quits.
He is late getting home and when he calls from a payphone to let her know, she informs him that she won’t be there when he gets back. She is just not happy anymore. He comes home to an empty house.
So, my question is: How does that make things better? The debts don’t disappear, the bills don’t disappear, communication breaks down, coordinating childcare becomes harder, and now – since you were so stressed out about not being able to afford the rent – you get to pay another rent.
She moves to New York because her sister’s boyfriend might have a job for her and we don’t see her the rest of the movie.
How can she walk away from family: her five year old son and a loving husband? The lesson here is that life sucks. Expect it. Deal with it. Leaving (because she wasn’t ‘happy’) did not make her happy, because – guess what? – life still sucks!!
(Excerpt) Read more at zpatriot.com ...
Too many people seems to think that momentary happyness is the goal of life.
What’s sad is that the majority of people put their emphasis on this life and totally ignore where they are going to spend eternity.
It doesn't. I don't believe the author of the story/movie had any intention for it to make things better. The whole point was about how bad it got for one person (the father).
Any of Obamas Happiness Stamps used here?..
Nice, yep that is the other site admin who apparently submitted the same user article.
Unfortunately with the way posts work here there is no automated checking to see if the same URL had been linked prior.
Still, I prefer Free Republic to Reddit or Digg.
So, my question is: How does that make things better?
You can post the whole article
(just saying....)
The real fact revealed in the story is that neither of these people put the happiness of the child ahead of their own selfish pursuits.
So you're posting your own blog's material? Why excerpt then?
Unfortunately with the way posts work here there is no automated checking to see if the same URL had been linked prior.
No, it's not automated. It's called "Search".
You should take a look at it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search
You paste a title under "titles" and then can see if it has been posted before.
I know, it's hard. Like paying for your own contraception.
Whoah easy there big fella. Maybe read the article, no it is not mine, you actually quote me stating it was from a site user.
New to the site and thanks for such a warm welcome.
I will certainly use the search feature in the future.
Apologies for being such a hideous and terrible human.
That is the sort of angry for no reason response I would expect from the KOS folks, not here.
What on earth does contraception have to do with this?
I would also suggest that maybe the Search function should be linked from the main forum/article views?
I actually had to come back to this comment in order to find the URL for it.
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