The Pursuit of HappYness

I used to consider myself a HAPPY person. My strategy was the simple denial of unhappiness until I felt like I couldn’t lie to myself anymore, even though that lying was doing me good.
Perhaps I have lost the capability to see the goodness in things, or I have just lost the skill to twist anything negative into positive. I think the question that has ultimately taken away my happiness is “Am I happy?”. I think there was a movie I watched (I’m too lazy to find out which one) where the suggestion was to only ask yourself questions that provided you with encouraging and optimistic replies. Now, I think it’s time I give that strategy a try.
I watched the movie the pursuit of happyness. I’m sure you’ve noticed the misspelling as did everyone else Will Smith, in the beginning of the movie, is frustrated by the fact that there is no Y in happiness. It’s almost as if there is a certain way that he has defined happiness, and when the same happiness is presented in a different form, it does not seem like the same word to him. Nevertheless, as his character builds up, he stops wondering about the misspelling of the word and the misfortune of his life, . While in the beginning he figures that it must always be a PURSUIT of happiness, as opposed to actual happiness, he later begins to recognize happiness in any form, even in the billion obstacles ahead of him. That tiny moment of happiness after the two-hour long struggle is felt even by the audience, and makes the pursuit of happyness absolutely worth living for.