Use It Well
There are some movies that I can just watch over and over again. You've Got Mail is one of those. I am watching it right now and wondering why I do this to myself over and over again. I get so involved in the shows I watch and the books I read. I really feel like they are part of me, that their worries are my worries and their joys are mine as well. It probably seems odd and I have trouble expressing exactly how it feels at times, but I do feel a connection with characters and situations that are purely fiction. Nabokov once wrote, "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much." I think about this from time to time when my imagination gets the best of me. Usually it is after a rather intense reaction to something I have seen or read (i.e. my previous two posts) or when I have imagined how a situation would turn out in my real life, onl...