Happiness
- A feeling of contented persuasion that one’s life is what one feels it should be, coupled with sufficiency of provision with regard to functioning, finance, relationship, contribution, and depending on the person, spirituality.
Happiness isn’t merely about bliss, just as love isn’t merely warm fuzzies. It’s an overarching sense experienced over time, that can only be recognized with a certain amount of detachment. Following are excellent illustrations of people who are happy and know it, are happy and don’t know it, should be happy but aren’t, will never be happy because they misguide themselves, and have every reason not to be happy and yet overcome.
Examples of Happiness in Film
- 500 Days of Summer / (500) Days of Summer
- About Last Night…
- About Schmidt
- American Splendor
- As Good As It Gets
- Bandits
- Bastard Out of Carolina
- Brokeback Mountain
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Corrina, Corrina
- Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Dinner with Friends
- Ellie Parker
- Far and Away
- Far from Heaven
- Fargo
- Frances
- Friends with Money
- Good Will Hunting
- Guinivere
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Harold and Maude
- Heartburn
- I Don’t Know How She Does It
- In America
- Interiors
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Jack Goes Boating
- Jerry Maguire
- Keeping the Faith
- La Cage aux Folles
- little man
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins
- Murphy’s Romance
- My Best Friend’s Wedding
- Normal
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Private Benjamin
- Raising Arizona
- Real Women Have Curves
- Roxanne
- Saturday Night Fever
- Sideways
- Slums of Beverly Hills
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Terms of Endearment
- The Accidental Tourist
- The Best of Times
- The Cooler
- The Firm
- The Full Monty
- The Good Girl
- The Graduate
- The Painted Veil
- The Princess Bride
- The Proposal
- The Savages
- The Shipping News
- The Station Agent
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- Unfaithful
- We Don’t Live Here Anymore
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
- Whatever Works
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Working Girl
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
Back from a seriously scary health relapse in mid-October and returning to action. Kudos to my patient friends and colleagues, you're the best. New programs and more unrolling this year, here's to 2012!
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