Where does happIness come from?

This winter holiday I watched the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. It leaves me a smile on my face and warmth in my heart.

At first, I was confused by the word “happyness” in the title. After watching, I understand it’s deliberately misspelled. It means there is no “y”(why) in happiness, only “i”(I). And that’s the purpose of the movie.

It’s based on a true story and full of love, pain, and hope. Gardner Chris is a struggling salesman. As he tries to sell his scanners, his wife leaves him because of the hard life, then he loses his house and finds out the government takes the last bit of money in his bank account for taxes. He has all sorts of difficulties with his son Christopher. But by virtue of diligence and intelligence, he catches the chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, vying for a career with other twenty candidates. In the end, Gardner becomes an excellent stockbroker and goes on to form his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm.

The movie urges me to ask myself a question that I have never thought about: how long would I keep battling to get what I really want out of life? I calm down, and ponder over it carefully.

If we want happiness, the only thing we can do is striving for our own happIness on our own. It’s “I” that matters, to be sure.