Walking the Wall

(Click the picture to see a slide show of pictures from the zoo today–our fulfillment of happiness today)

We watched the Pursuit of Happyness tonight and Chris Gardner (the main character who happens to be a real man the movie was depicting) makes some interesting statements. At one point when life is really going rough for him, he says: “It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?”

Later he realizes that we can have happiness and that it is worthwhile to pursue it–but he does make an interesting point about the Declaration of Independence. At a different time he points out that happiness is mentioned twice in the Declaration–once along with life and liberty and the other time linked together with safety. Life, liberty, safety–and happiness.

It seems that happiness, the pursuit of it and the living in it, was deemed very important by Jefferson and I fully agree with him.