Welcome to Happiness

A gem I found on my “You May Like This” list on Hulu was a movie called “Welcome to Happiness.” And it was a great pick for me, and my sis, it’s our type of story. It explores one of our favorite topics - the synchronicity of life and the timeline that your choices and decisions thread the story of life together.

My relationship with my husband can be traced back to when I was 5, 14 years before we met, 12 years before I’d ever known of his existence. My parents tried to enroll me into the 1st grade of a Catholic elementary school just down the street from my house. The school was full and I was placed on a waiting list. I don’t know why I remember this, but it’s something I’ve always remembered. Because of that I was enrolled in a school 20 minutes from my house, but only a few minutes away from my dad’s work. From there I met a friend that later introduced me to my husband when I was 19. 

I often think of all the things that could have happened, simply the decisions between my parents, my husband’s parents, my friend’s parents, my husband’s, and my own that all attributed to the moment we met.

Through a cast of interesting and sometimes magical characters, “Welcome to Happiness” shows how we are all connected. It illustrates how our lives all effect each other both good and bad, and in this hope-filled story the opportunity to change. Just like the main character, Ward, in this life we are challenged to focus on our own feet. To compare ourselves to others lives is comparing ourselves to the composition of choices and decisions that others have been given and made. And sometimes what we think we want is not what we want at all, only the perception of something we deem desirable.