Hurley stays positive. He also contributes good ideas like gathering the food, water, checking the manifest and even comes up with a golf course. He and the island are connected through a set of numbers.
How he ended up on Flight 815:
Hurley flew to Australia to find a friend of Leonard's in a search for the origin of the set of numbers that he feels have become a curse to him. He nearly missed the flight because the power went out in his hotel and then he had to buy an additional ticket because of his size.
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