Groundhog Day!

Harold Ramis portrays the life of many Americans in the 1993 film Groundhog Day. Today we are so caught up on being "successful", but what does that word mean to you? To me, the word successful means you have achieved your own happiness. Sure, Bill Murray's character Phil Connors is successful in the sense that he has a nice job, and is making money, but his individual success is low...He begins living Groundhog Day over and over and over again. Which in a way he was already doing that before, because he wasn't changing his attitude, lifestyle, etc. to achieve "inner happiness". Reliving groundhog day was the way to give him the chance and time to change. Sure enough, it did.

I think for many people these days, reliving a certain day could be for the better. I feel like Americans are just always on auto-pilot. We have plenty of ways to help us stay in our fast-paced lives: fastfood, drive-thru's, online movie rentals, "go-gurt", ipods, cellphones, facebook, delivery of almost anything, and the list goes on. We take what we have for granted. Many people are so focused on what they think is important to help them achieve "success" they miss the other elements of life. If we had the chance to relive one day over and over again we would eventually, just like Phil, pay attention to our surroundings in detail and maybe learn new things, meet new people, and improve individually. Phil tried new things (because he had nothing better to do), found he liked those things and were fairly good at them. He got to know new people, and realized even though they are different than him they are really good, fun, genuine people. By the end of the movie, all of these factors helped him improve from the inside-out. He stopped reliving groundhog day once he achieved true inner happiness, to me that is a success!