I’ve been
thinking about the 1998 movie You’ve Got Mail.
At first
glance, you’d think this movie is about winning. Joe Fox is Goliath, trampling
down the weaker competition as we cheer for the David-style entrepreneur who
dares to come against him. Although the female version of the David character
does achieve a win in an unexpected way in the end, it’s not a David and
Goliath fight at all. Joe Fox isn’t Goliath.
Fox shows
that he knows how to separate his business from his personal life until he
realizes that his business has interfered with his personal life. When he
begins to put a plan into action that would give him an enjoyable life away
from the competitive tensions of work, he has to tread carefully through the
transitions.
Going from enemy
to likeable acquaintance to friend is a hard journey. It takes vulnerability
for that kind of a journey to have any lasting value. Fox has to make a fresh
start and rethink his goal. If he wants a life he’s never had, he has to
do something he’s never done.
His
humility was what gave Fox the opportunity to go from the man who has
everything to the man who must get the one thing he wants most: forgiveness.
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