In My Pursuit of Happiness

Staying Focused
The little button that could.......

I have been told recently that I am not an emotional person from an old friend I've known for years.  But I would have to disagree because I am finding the older I get the more emotional I am.  Sometimes I am too emotional in my opinion, especially when I can relate to someone else's emotional experience.  After coming home from a short weekend road trip, and reflecting on what's important in mine and my family’s lives, I flopped down on the couch, turned the TV on and there was Will.  [Like we are on a first name basis--yeah right!]  The Pursuit to Happyness , starring Will Smith, was playing and I came right in on THE "emotional" scene with him at the basketball court schooling his son on an important life lesson,  "Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something. Not even me. All right?.......You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period." Unsurprisingly, this deeply emotional scene resonated with me, but this was not THE emotional part of the movie for me.  Throughout the movie I fought back the tears watching Will Smith's character repeatedly face obstacles every time he made headway to make a better situation for his son.  From the scene outside the office building when his future boss asks him for his last five dollar bill, to the IRS garnishing is funds from his bank account........ this man never gave up!  I often feel how he felt with getting knocked down repeatedly!  I remember vividly that day while at the gas station, with the last $20 in hand, an obstacle came flying out of nowhere and knocked me cold out!  Unconscious!  Somehow between getting out of the car and into the store the $20 vanished!  And of course after spending half an hour searching frantically I finally settled on the fact that it was gone and hung my head super low, crawled back into the car and drove away.  The only thing is “obstacle” has an evil twin and they are always together, so as I pulled out of the parking lot, I naturally looked at the dashboard and at that precise moment the gas light came on-- just to knock me back out as I was coming to from the first blow...........So understandably I am very emotional even now reflecting on The Pursuit of Happyness.   Maybe I saw it for a reason, and I can only hope that I too will find success.