The pursuit of happiness

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2007)

The Pursuit of Happiness is a movie based on a true story. The protagonist, Chris Gardner, is no doubted a success; the movie focuses on how he got to success. Nobody is born to win but learns to. Sometimes, people consider themselves a failure even before they try to be successful. To excel is not as difficult as we think. Maybe we just need to find out what we are really good at, create ourselves chances, and the most important, someone who will persistently trust on us and stand by our side.
Chris told his five-year-old son, Christopher, never let others told you that you couldn't do something, not even I. How important sticking to your dreams is. How many times in life we're deprived of our dreams, sometimes even by those loves us dearly and we love wholeheartedly? Why we are easily persuaded to believe that we are incapable of something? Maybe that's exactly how we're driven far from who we want to be. Tell ourselves "I can do it" and then prove it.
Chris is doomed to be distinguished because he is the kind of men who tend to create chances for themselves, sharing the taxi fees, telling the truth, showing his sincerity, no hanging the phone between calls, promoting his program in the box of football stadium audience. Poverty, lack of education background, even car accident, nothing's gonna stop him. If he was blocked, instead of an excellent stock broker, he would have been a poor salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners until today. Comparing with him, we are too easily to be frustrated and retreated, aren't we?
Chris could fail without his lovely boy, Christopher, who believed what Chris said even after his mother left with despair. Together, father and son struggled through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing misery. "Do you trust me?" "Yes, dad." It's the "yes" that supported Chris to overcome all the roughness and insist on what he's fighting for. The beloved boy would grow up and change his mind. The role his father plays would fade with time. Maybe someday, he would no longer need his father as he did in childhood. But what matters. The memory of the time they shared together would last forever; their love and care for each other would last forever.
The success of Chris Gardner is a legend, a miracle, but not an accident. Each of us can make it too. The difference between winners and losers is to do or not to do. Let's just do it.