Who Gets My Mail?

am watching You've Got Mail. I love it. I don't know what it is about the movie that gets me going. I think it's Meg Ryan in manner of a sweet tempered girl. I love the movie. I think the lines are so adorable...

But moving past the ridiculously cute lines and cheesy plot, I think the movie itself is pretty real. i am especially fond of the scenes where she and Tom Hanks are exchanging emails. They seem so real. Two people who barely know each other but are learning more and more about each other. They do what we all REALLY do, and that's talk about nothing:


"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. " says Hanks in reply to Meg Ryan's telling him about a butterfly she saw on the subway.


But most importantly I think it's so endearing when they show Meg Ryan at night, wondering about her life sending an email to the one person she wanted to hear her heart. She didn't want an answer, and he didn't even have to respond. She just wanted it to be heard...

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable but small.And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void."


We all have the person we would send that question to...or else we are still looking for them.