Thoughts from Forrest Gump

So after so many years, I finally got a chance to sit through and watch Forrest Gump...

It was a very happy story in a way, but also sad. Here is a guy (played by Tom Hanks) who what most people would call a retard, but he lucks out all his life and gets to do things only people can only dream of. Sees the president not once, but twice, representing the US during the Cold War, supposedly influencing tons of major events in the history of the US, a medal of honor recipient, AND owns a successful company... all in one lifetime.

But even with all these external things and doing the right things at the right moment in time, you can hardly say he had it all. I mean, it still took him an eternity to get to be with the person he loved... Regardless of all the fortune and fame and luck he had, the only goal he always seemed to miss is her.

Finally, when he does get to be with her, she dies in a few years... Only thing he knew he wanted in life, he couldn't get... when he finally had it, all he could do was watch it slip away... without being able to do anything about it.

So was Forrest Gump (I think that's the main character's name) really happy and successful? He lived a full life to be sure, but didn't get to spend it with the one person he loved for most of it...

I guess the better question is: what could he have done to change this self fulfilling fortune... He went with the flow and became a person worthy to be loved... at the expense of almost missing out in her life completely. Perhaps he should have tried harder to go for the girl of his dreams... but then again, would the girl of his dreams be with her if he didn't become the person he was at the end?


On a side note:
'stupid is as stupid does'... Still don't quite get what it means... Does it mean that someone who is stupid will do what a stupid person does? Sounds sort of mean doesn't it? Hrm.. I wonder...