You've Got Mail...

Have you ever watched a movie and it relates back to your own real life?

It was a quiet Saturday evening and I was watching this movie called ‘You’ve Got Mail’. It was not the first time that I watched this movie….a dozen times. But when I watched it last night, it just relived the experiences that I had with the husband.

The way Joe and Kathleen were communicating with each other via email just relived my experiences with the husband. Of course, the movie scenes differ as Kathleen and Joe lived in the same neighborhood and went to the same stores whereas the husband and I were miles apart.

I like the scene when Joe was trying to ignore Kathleen’s emails. He loitered around the room but ended up staring at his laptop. This scene reminded me of when I was having an argument with the husband and we stopped chatting for months.

The last scene about Kathleen and Joe meeting at the park with Brinkly the dog was the most touching. Kathleen said ‘I was hoping that it was you’. Now that struck the bell when I first met the husband…we were mutual friends but I longed to be with someone with a perfect smile and a warm personality. After meeting him for the first time, he was the one whom I was hoping for but never expected to be. The 12 months of us chatting made us feel as though we were not strangers to each other.

Our internet friendship was a very weird one. We were mere friends and nothing more than that. We bickered a lot online and then stopped chatting for months but got back online again and continued chatting, from where we left behind. My vacation to San Francisco was not to see him exclusively. I just happened to pick the city that he lives in so…what the heck…we met but little did we expect that we would fall in love in a second (like wham bam ala kazaam!).

Here’s the synopsis of the movie if you do not know what I am talking about :)


You’ve Got Mail

Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly live and work blocks from each other on New York City's Upper West Side. Their lives are practically intertwined. They both shop at the same place, frequent the same coffee shop, and even own competing bookstores on the same street. They also both have significant others of their own. Joe has the overly hyper book editor Patricia Eden (Parker Posey), while Kathleen lives with the scholarly newspaper columnist Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear). Then they meet in a chat room. Though they keep their identities secret (they're known only by screen names NY152 and Shopgirl), they tell each other everything about their lives, including their private feelings, which slowly turn into affection for each other. When Joe decides to expand his "Foxbooks" bookstore into a superchain, Kathleen, with her "Shop Around the Corner," is doomed. Surely her boutique business will be lost to the conglomerate with a built-in newsstand and coffee bar. When Kathleen confides her work woes to her e-mail buddy, Joe puts two-and-two together. How can he reveal himself to her now, knowing that he is the cause of her misery? Hopefully, love will conquer all