Pursuit

I just finished watching the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. In it, Will Smith's character spends the whole movie with circumstances around him going from bad to worse. But through it all, he has a dream and keeps pursuing it no matter what life throws at him. (We're talking major things here: his wife leaving him, getting evicted, arrested, etc.)

I was reading over my last post, and the word "pursue" kept jumping out at me. To pursue doesn't mean that we've arrived at our intended destination. It just means that we haven't given up on getting there; we're actively trying to find our way to that destination. It doesn't even mean that we appear to be closer each day. But it does mean that we've tried, and through trying we accomplish more than we can realize at the time.