Blog Post on Success; Happiness

Last night, two of my roommates decided to watch a movie. We finally came to an agreement and decided to watch Happy. This was a movie about what makes people happy, which I believe can cause people to be and feel successful. In the movie, there was a woman who was one of the 50 most beautiful women in the country. She was happily married, had children and many people admired her. One day, she got into an argument with her sister outside and her sister sped off. This beautiful woman’s hand was stuck in the door and she got dragged along beside truck, until she eventually got free but landed under the truck and her head got ran over. 

Amazingly she survived, but the beautiful face that everyone love was destroyed. She had countless surgeries, but her face will never look the same. About a year after this accident, her husband divorced her, and her popularity dropped, no one wanted to look like her anymore.

This was a turning point in her life, this is when people started to look at her for who she was on the inside, not for what she looked like on the outside. When this started to happen, she finally started to be genuinely happy. She expressed how she has never been this happy before.

I believe this relates to our class and Bellah because this woman used to focus on only the second language, which is what I believe is her looks. This made her different from most people, and separated her from the average person. Once her looks changed, she finally started to focus on her first language, what she had in common with everyone else, what unified her unite with everyone. To her, this was success in happiness. Everyone around her was happy, and when she genuinely became happy, she finally fit into this expression of American culture. To some people success is money and looks, but to her, success was finally being who she was and being happy with that.