As I've mentioned before, You've Got Mail is one of my all-time favorite movies. It is the film equivalent of comfort food, like macaroni and cheese or chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I like it because of it's quotes and conversations. Have I mentioned I'm a words person? In it, Kathleen Kelley writes to Joe Fox about her life:
"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."
I think we have a tendency to buy into the fallacy that a life that isn't full of daily adventures or extreme fortune or household-name-fame isn't a life that amounts to much. I don't believe that is true in the least. Sometimes, the brave thing to do is embrace a new dream, follow a different path, answer a new call.
I found this quote recently. It has served as a good reminder to me - that life is valuable, no matter the scale.
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