In Pursuit of Happyness

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Seen the movie? If you haven’t I suggest you do right now. It is a movie with a lot of messages for budding, established and even seasoned entrepreneurs alike. It is a story of sheer grit and determination. Positive attitude. Courage and perseverance.

It is about the fact that one needs to accept that life will throw lessons at every point while you live on earth, with the sole intention of making sure that you receive the lessons you ought to receive. However, the way your life, your perspective and you current state of mind, will all turn out to be is really how to react to all those situations life has thrown on you, as your lessons.

A story of a salesman who is torn for want of love from his own family. Wife deserts him. His kid loves him. He walks away with his kid elsewhere on a quest to become a stock broker and the movie depicts his way of accepting those lessons life threw at him. His despicable situations, his agony due to the fact that his kid had to take a little of these lessons too and his fight for survival. The way he works towards his ultimate goal and how he faces the toughest of the challenges that he encounters.

Each one of us here is in pursuit of the same happiness. However, if we were playing Will Smith’s character in real life, would we survive? We would we succeed? As a matter of fact, would we be able to take even a fraction of what he had to endure?