Waiting, waiting
My housemate Adeline said I should watch The Lake House (starring Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves) coz "it's about waiting for the right person & right timing; it's so encouraging to people like you and me, who are still waiting".
Considering the fact that he's two years behind her (he's in 2004 and she's in 2006), and that he would have to wait two whole years before he can meet up with her in person, it's kinda like... wow.
Of course, one review I read said it was weird that he never tried to hook up with the 2004 version of her, but to ME it makes perfect sense. In two years, lots of things can happen, and events & experiences shape the person you are. It just wouldn't have been the same, if he'd tried to make something happen in 2004. She might not have been the same.
Reminds me of Dooce's & Jenn's stories, in a way. You meet each other, but it isn't the right time, and although you do get along and like each other as a person, nothing comes of it. You flit around the fringes of each other's lives, or you disappear from each other's lives for a while and then reappear. One day, you meet again, you actually LOOK at each other, the time is right, you both are ready, and... everything just seems to fall into place.
(That is the majorly abridged version, of course. Are you kidding? I don't believe anything could be THAT easy!)
It's the real life love stories that get to you... because they're real. They make you think, "If it could happen to them, it could happen to me." They make you hope, "If they could find someone to love, who loves them like that, I can find someone to love who loves me like that." They make you believe, "If their love still burns so strongly over the span of years, perhaps love really can endure for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, till death do us part."
Ah well... as people keep telling me, it will come when it comes.