Groundhog Day Movie Carries Life Lessons...Up To a Point

Today is February 2nd, also more popularly known as Groundhog Day here in the USA.  I've never been into the story of the groundhog that either sees its shadow or doesn't and thus forecasts how much longer the cold season is supposed to last...but probably me having lived down here in Florida almost my entire life has something to do with that.  Still, I did enjoy very much the same-titled 1993 movie starring Bill Murray as selfish and vain Pittsburgh television weatherman Phil Connors, who gets trapped in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania while on assignment during Groundhog Day and keeps repeating it with no end in sight.  If you've seen this movie, then you understand how Connors eventually learns some lessons in living and becomes a better person at the end.  That's all very well and good for a make-believe story with an absurd premise like this, but in real life we all live hanging out over the edge of the "now", with our immediate actions taking on a kind of urgency that someone like Connors, with his knowledge that he could go "back to the drawing board" the very next day (which for him was that same day repeated), could be bolder and more experimental.  I suppose that any of us, given just one day to repeatedly live over and over again, could eventually get it "right" and achieve a kind of "sainthood", at least for that one day...but once we finally break through to the following day...with Connors it was February 3rd...we're all back to square one again, even if, like Connors, we gained some wisdom and character-building through our "Groundhog Day" ordeals.  I think the movie Groundhog Day would have been more interesting had it continued a little past its original ending and showed Murray's character screwing up again...