Pursuit of Happ'y'ness

I have enough things to keep myself bzee during weekends. My usual schedule for a weekend in Bangy runs like this. On a lazy saturday morning, sunlight hits my face a little past 9 followed by a nice shower and an attempt to clear dust in all the nozzles of 8-holed bamboo stick accumulated during the week. I reach Kalaanjali for my flute class arnd half past 11 and my flute teacher, Indira carries the time forward till 15 to 1. May be half an hour more on somedays when I am royally screwed up. I usually claim that I did practise the whole week when I had originally blew the dust off the holes only couple of hours back. The result is usually visible crystal clear to my teacher. I don't wanna become a profound flautist. I love this instrument from I don't recollect from when at this moment. Little can I claim that I do have some inclination in learning Carnatic,after my futile attempts on vocal in childhood for atleast 2 years from 2 different teachers. It used to be fun in my class, when my teacher asks me to observe the way she plays the swaram, I often get so much engrossed into the eternal music that I get completely lost in it and get my middle stick dancing in the air right thru my defense.

Coming back to the subject, I usually make it a point not to miss my mid day sleep after a heavy meal on saturdays. However, last weekend I purchased my bus ticket and on the way back sheikh picked up a movie named "Pursuit of Happ'y'ness" with a 'y' and not 'i'. I knew I might doze off anytime in the middle, but eventually, I didnt. This movie had a deep impact on me. An excellent Will smith movie very well crafted, with no trace of his usual hi-fi stunts, a fevicol bonded relation with his son, putting up even when his love ditches him and runs behind money. He sweats hard for every penny that he makes. Becomes crazy on one fine day when he comes to know that the US govt has stuck hands into chris's bank acct for paying taxes. For an internship opportunity at a stock broker's firm that pays him not a single pie for 6 months, having known that only one out of 20 people get chosen to get a job there, chris faces all sorts of ups and downs during that short span of life. It made me realise how compilcated, it is really to stick on and gel with the family life and make the wheels move when you have a job that pays you way too less that you hardly make your ends meet. Even the rock solid hard heart throbed person would shed atleast one tear, when he imagines himself being in the shoes of chris.

It happened to be a real life stunner and a living example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gardner
Eventually, Chris Gardener has moved on all the way till being the founder, CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings his own brokerage firm, that houses the most succesful futures traders in the market.

I doubt if anybody ever imagines to be a person who could hardly make a living. I don't refer to the street beggars, who inspite of having good health, is just too lazy to do any job. But just trying to imagine thousands or even millions of young boiling blood steaming under the hot sun with no proper awareness of how to lead a meaningful life. Several thousands of them are automatically motivated into non-social ways of making money and ending their life as criminals. Its just money that everybody craves far for a living. I believe there are lot more human values added to it, smartly illustrated by the movie.

Although there was a power shut down that denied me in watching the last half an hour of the movie, putting aside the so-called big match of the world cup, Aus - RSA clash, saw the last half of the movie. Probably deep down inside, this movie has made a sizzling wave thru the dry leaves accumulated over the last 3 months. Will this instill a change in me, or am I just an on-looker of this event too that just rushed past me leaving no traces behind ?