It had to be you...

I thought of a great tagline for a movie today... “Sometimes the people in our lives are there for the greatest of reasons. We may think they are there to sabotage our dreams, but hopefully we discover that the reason they are there is to help us realize our dreams.” It’s for a remake of this wonderful old movie I saw on TCM once: It Had To Be You. The plot was very simple but so good. There was this girl from a very wealthy family who as a child had a birthday party and she kissed a boy dressed like an Indian. When she grew up, she was engaged to be married but kept having dreams of the Indian guy -- all grown up. He appeared to her, but she was the only one that could see him. Finally she discovered that he was a real person and the dream guy that only she could see appeared so that she could find her way to him. She saw the real guy in her father’s department store, thinking it was the imaginary guy following her still and had him thrown out. When she got home she discovered that the imaginary guy had been playing chess with her father all the time (that’s right I forgot, everyone could see him but I don’t remember the reason she gave for his presence). She eventually found the real guy and he was a firefighter that resisted her charms until finally they discovered they had so much in common, fell in love and at the end got married, but there were a few hitches in between with her fiance and the real guy thinking she didn’t want to marry him because he wasn’t good enough. Anyway, the point of my tagline was, sometimes we love people we think are unattainable and then an undesireable one comes along but forces us to like them. There is a genuine sincerity inside of them that comes to the surface and manifests itself in helping us to reach our goal. I certainly hope that the purpose of the undesirable in my life is to help me reach the unattainable one, but if it isn’t, may it be to help me realize my own worth and that there is someone who is both desireable and attainable.