The Pursuit of Happiness

I just finished watching a wonderful movie entitled "The Pursuit of Happyness" starring Will Smith and his son Jaden. It was an inspiring movie about a man named Chris Gardner whose wife left him to raise his son alone. He was poor and he wanted more from life. Believing he would suceed, he entered a six month internship at Dean Witter. During those six months, he and his son became homeless and penniless, but he was determined to make it. At the end of his internship, he was offered a position with the company and about six years later he founded his own investment company called Gardner Rich. He became a millionaire. He said that Thomas Jefferson was a very smart man when he added "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our basic human rights in the Declaration of Independence. Everyone pursues happiness, but is it always a pursuit? or does one finally reach a point where they feel they have found it? What exactly is happiness? I guess happiness has a diferent definition for all of us. For the homeless person on the street, happiness might be a good meal and a warm bed. The rich man who lives in a mansion might say happiness is someone to love him and not his money. For me, happiness is time. Time spent with those I love. Time to say and do the things that are important to me and to those I care about. I say that because for some of us, time is short. No one knows how much time we have on this earth, and we should all make every minute of every day count. Chris Gardner made every minute of every day count and he became a millionaire.