Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Busy schedules and late nights are these days very usual. A time was there when you go to bed at midnight and then next day you can’t get up till 10:00 AM. These days you sleep at midnight and you get up at 7:00 AM in the morning to get on with what you were working on last night … loL!

Yes, times have changed and things as well…because when I was studying I read a person should have 8 hours of sleep everyday and these days it has reduced to 6 and less….:)

Yes times are changing so I am ;) …remember this was an ad in India once upon a time.

Well, I wanted to share about this movie….which is based on a real story.

The essence of it is ‘Happiness is only real if it is shared’ – such a big thing you realize only when you can’t share.

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” Anne Frank

Imagine a situation!

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This movie is called “In to the Wild” – where a boy of 23 years old decides to leave the capitalistic society and for this he burns his money, ditches his car, gives his money to charity and experiences life a tramp, travelling all over USA, living in jungles, desert you name it.

As he was burning the money and dumping the car,….I was thinking wow!!! What if everyone thought like that…specially at this budget and economy crisis time ..lol! really it was taking me to a level where I was thinking life would be such an adventure if I could…but the way the boy took it…he cuts himself off from all relationships, he changes his identity itself by burning all his real ID’s.

Where ever he goes he meets different people and somewhere or the other he gets connected in such a way that people offer him to stay with them. At one point he met a very old man who was a ex-army man who shows his interest to adopt him…but fate had decided something else for him.

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life” ~ Albert Camus

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He writes a book about his journey, his adventurous moment and times when he couldn’t get food to eat how he started hunting animals and when he couldn’t find animals how he used to read from books and find out what wild plants he can eat and so forth.

The sad part is that he writes all this…and accidentally eats the plant which is poisonous to his life and he is dying…that’s the time he regrets….that whatever he did …he wrote …he can’t share with anyone and without sharing what is it worth of?

But the movie maker Shawn Penn is the director, who has made sure to share this and it’s kind of sad but a truth about life and happiness.

If you are ready for adventure then you go for it

“What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

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7 Responses to Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

  1. Suresh Kumar says:

    It is my brother’s favorite movie and one day he says he wants to do like that. I remember another guy who travels around the world to all the places and danced with the locals and captured it and posted in youtube. That was also wonderful.

  2. sobi says:

    ok, now i got it why u asked me to read this post ;)

    have personally gone through this many times when i was really very happy at moments, but then it was also true that my happiness would have been deeper, if i had somebody around to share, but then it was my choice too…. :-) you cant have the good of both the heavens :-)

  3. Sunil says:

    I’m going through this…..[:D]
    The movie sounds interesting….Will download and watch it.

    Have a nice day dear.

  4. Art says:

    Never heard of the movie but it’s true what you say about sleeping less. I’m lucky to get 6 hours of sleep and I still can’t find time to blog!

  5. Taskeen says:

    It is hard to describe the contradictory feelings that a movie can arouse in you. The movie is more than 2 hours and the thing that Sean Penn has succeeded to make me sit and watch Chris journey through the American landscape without loosing interest one minute. Because not much happens really just ordinary events and lightenedup peaks that leads to the next scene.

  6. Jeevan says:

    Well said dear! Happiness is in sharing, and worth of life itself sharing. I have this movie in my computer for some long time now and still yet to watch. I hope I do it soon…

  7. Mia Harris says:

    Happiness is a state of mind that really depends how we see the situations in our lives each day. you can have all the riches in the world but still see it as a lonely place.~*.

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