You've Got Mail

I watched You've Got Mail shortly before leaving for London, and when I saw that it was on TV tonight I had to watch it again. Sometimes you find that something in a book or a movie just somehow resonates with you (like Neil Gaiman poem I keep plugging) and this movie has three of those. Plus, it's just a really romantic movie.

The one is where she decides to close her bookstore, and her friend says to her that it's the brave to do. "You're imaging that your life could be different", and that's what I'm trying to accomplish by having moved to London. Something that was totally unlike me to do, and I don't think anyone believed that I actually would, until I did.

The second is when she and her boyfriend realise that they don't love each other. He's interested in another woman, and he says to her, what about you? Is there someone else? And she thinks, and says, "No. No, but there's the dream of someone else".

The third, I forget the exact phrasing, but she says something like, people always say that change is good, but what they really mean is that something that you didn't want to happen has happened. I'm not big on change, but one thing I've learned is that change is only bad when everything's good. When things aren't good, change can only make things better. When things are good, change can only make them worse. The difficult bit is when some things are good, but some things could do with improvement; how do you restrict change to the bad bits and keep the good bits stable?