Groundhog Day stars Bill Murray as a TV news anchor Phil who is assigned to cover an event called Groundhog Day (a traditional event to see if winter is going to continue longer than ‘usual’) for the third time in a row at a place called Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. By a strange twist of the supernatural, the day, as is often said of history, repeats itself. Except that while history usually checks its repetitions, that particular day in Phil’s life doesn’t; it goes on and on. And on. He can’t seem to ever get past that day. Finally, resigning himself to it, he begins to explore his options. And finds that there’s more to life than he had realised.
It’s a hilarious movie, and I strongly recommend it. Its hilarity, though, is not the only good thing about it; it also has something you can learn from:
Lesson 1: Things are only as bad as you make of them. That is to say, things that happen to you aren’t always good or bad inherently – many times, it’s how you deal with them that makes them so.
Lesson 2: Think about this: When given unlimited time, what would you do? Now, think about your life: what is it that you think you can’t do?
Lesson 3: Anything that you do today, you can do better if you set your mind to it. Even the most ordinary job can be done extraordinarily well.
Lesson 4: There’s no limit to how much you can improve yourself.
