I am well behind when it comes to movies.
Only recently good friend of mine, great film connoisseur has told me that i should watch one of his favourite storytelling movies, released in year 2006.
Movie featuring Will Smith, "The pursuit of happyness ".
As usual I couldn't watch it in one whole piece. It took me almost four days to watch it all, mainly while having a meals.
But I was really absorbed by the depth of this film, which has happened to be based on a true story of San Francisco homeless salesman Chris Gardener.
Chris was extremely hard working man. Husband and father.
As everyone of us Chris had his own talents, he was very smart and persistent.
However he was lacking of higher education or diplomas so he was trying to make his leaving by selling medical supplies ( in the film he sales bone density scanners ), strongly believing that through his hard, honest and restless work one day he will achieve comfortable life for him and his family.
His vision and believe in his own ability as well as hope of getting better life for his son ( in the film 5 years old ), would carry him through the struggle of improvement time.
Chris takes an actions which we would normally ( especially social workers ) call irresponsible, and by doing this he takes massive risk of loosing his son.
Even thought that his sons good is main reason of his risky choices.
I am writing about this film for couple of reasons.
The main reason is to provide you with great quote, piece of conversation between Chris and his son Christopher. When Christopher tells his dad his dream of who he would love to become ( professional basketball player ) when he gets older and his fathers first expression was that he should probably concentrate on something more salutary.
As usual I couldn't watch it in one whole piece. It took me almost four days to watch it all, mainly while having a meals.
But I was really absorbed by the depth of this film, which has happened to be based on a true story of San Francisco homeless salesman Chris Gardener.
Chris was extremely hard working man. Husband and father.
As everyone of us Chris had his own talents, he was very smart and persistent.
However he was lacking of higher education or diplomas so he was trying to make his leaving by selling medical supplies ( in the film he sales bone density scanners ), strongly believing that through his hard, honest and restless work one day he will achieve comfortable life for him and his family.
His vision and believe in his own ability as well as hope of getting better life for his son ( in the film 5 years old ), would carry him through the struggle of improvement time.
Chris takes an actions which we would normally ( especially social workers ) call irresponsible, and by doing this he takes massive risk of loosing his son.
Even thought that his sons good is main reason of his risky choices.
I am writing about this film for couple of reasons.
The main reason is to provide you with great quote, piece of conversation between Chris and his son Christopher. When Christopher tells his dad his dream of who he would love to become ( professional basketball player ) when he gets older and his fathers first expression was that he should probably concentrate on something more salutary.
Christopher Gardner: Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something. Not even me. All right?
Christopher: All right.
Christopher Gardner: You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period.
I found very inspiring and very true.
We do limit ourselves in what we can do a lot. When we see some extraordinary plans of others, something that we wouldn't be able to commit to, we look at them skeptically.
We only admire them when we see the end result.
Another reason is that I would like to allude to Chris's character as a real warrior.
He shows his great fighter attitude. Never give up attitude.
He shows how persistence in achieving our goals through ups and downs of difficult life circumstances makes us stronger and wiser. Having the right motivator gives us incredible strength to create great victories.
Even Chris while going through rough times, looses his faith for short time, cries, breaks down and feel powerless.
Even Chris tells his son that he shouldn't dream as in the above quote.
It is natural that we are going to doubt, and fear.
Outcome depends on what feelings we are going to allow to outweigh: Our fears, self doubts, etc...
P.S Irony: while writing this post I am listening to the concert of another great, inspiring human being, an artist, singer, songwriter: Ed Sheeran. Ed just like Chris Gardener has lived on the streets of US and struggled a lot while chasing his dream.
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Krystian Ozog
Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy       |
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