Journey To Happiness (Part 4)

Part 1: How Can You Find Happiness?
Part 2: What is Happiness?
Part 3: Why Can't I Just Be.....Happy?

There is a great movie that came out that I would recommend to anyone seeking to discover true happiness. It is 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and it stars Diane Lane as Frances, a newly-divorced, shell-shocked woman trying to find herself. In the movie, Frances goes through a painful divorce, precipitated by her husband leaving her for another woman. She is distraught and upset and decides to 'get away from it all' by going on a trip to Italy. While on this trip, she comes across a lovely old home for sale in Tuscany. It is a charming house, though somewhat in a state of disrepair and, out of boredom, she decides to venture into the house and take a look around. As she looks around, something about the house simply charms her and she makes an offer for it right on the spot.

After a bit of back and forth with the owner, the house is hers! With all its attendant problems, repairs to be done and lack of adequate facilities. But it's hers. Her friends think she's crazy, she even doubts her own sanity at times, but she perseveres. She hires contractors to fix up the house and begins to make the house and village her own. She makes friends with the neighbors, pours boatloads of money into the endless repairs the house needs and even bravely embarks on a romance with a gentleman she meets on a whim. To make a long story short, her romance is cut (very) short and she is left heartbroken. She then begins to focus her life on helping a pregnant friend that has come to stay with her and facilitating a romance between one of her repairmen and the neighbor's daughter. At the end of the movie, while looking around at her friends and neighbors that have gathered for the wedding at her home, her eyes are finally opened to the meaning of 'true' happiness. She sees the laughter and love and family she has built for herself. Without a husband and without her own children. And she finally realizes that she already has all she ever wanted. Only then, in the last frames of the movie, does she meet the man of her dreams and presumably goes on to live happily ever after. Only after she had already found happiness for herself.



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