Like many Southerners, I once viewed mega-cities, such as New York, with distrust and even a little fear. Although I was born in Baltimore, lived in Atlanta and had family in Chicago, I was raised in the country and felt more comfortable in rural areas or very small cities. To me New York City seemed unfriendly and unsafe. My husband disliked crowds, so we avoided cities of any size.
In 1998, my marriage was crumbling. My husband and I were like roommates who did not like each other very much. I was depressed, I was cynical, I was lonely. And, that was the year the movie “You’ve Got Mail” was released.
Starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, “You’ve Got Mail” was a romantic comedy set in Manhattan. For me, “romantic” and “Manhattan” meant the movie had two strikes against it. I attended the movie with my then sister-in-law and her daughter. Through the show, my face was frozen in disgust. Who believed this drivel?
Unbelievably, I sat through the movie again with some girlfriends who wanted to see it. Second time around, I was more annoyed than disgusted, but I was also a little interested, in some strange inexplicable way. Afterwards, to my surprise, I thought about the movie often. When the video was released, I bought it and chastised myself for being so silly.
I watched the video over and over and over again. I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the living room and watched it. I could not seem to stop watching it. Was I going crazy? Why was I doing this? Thus began my first manifesting experience, although I was unaware of what I was doing or why I was doing it. Without knowledge of The Law Attraction, I could not understand my fascination with the movie or comprehend that the movie could actually help me create a new life.
My bizarre preoccupation with “You’ve Got Mail” lasted for about a year, but even after my obsession subsided, I continued to watch it two or three times a year. From that movie, grew a very strong desire to visit Manhattan. I wanted to walk the streets of the Upper West Side. I wanted to visit Riverside Park. I wanted to experience the city that once frightened me. I remained cynical about romance, but I wanted to be wrong; I wanted to believe in love again.
Little did I know that I was manifesting in the purest way possible. Long before I knew about the Law of Attraction and before “The Secret” was created, before my daughter entered my life, before I left my husband, I was manifesting Manhattan and my new man-to-be.
Six years after the release of “You’ve Got Mail”, I met my man. He differed from Tom Hanks in many ways, but he was romantic and he lived many years in New Jersey, right across the river from Manhattan, a city he visited as often as he could. He knew the streets of Manhattan well and he also loved the movie “You’ve Got Mail”. From the first time we watched the movie together, it became “our movie”. He told me where the movie scenes were located in Manhattan and shared many stories of his times in the city. My desire to see Manhattan, born from the movie, became a longing, a very strong wanting that was nurtured by his stories.
Another five years would pass before we were able to go to Manhattan, but I finally walked the streets I’d seen in “You’ve Got Mail” and visited all the city places my man so often told me about. Since then, we have returned two more times and try to visit there every year now. I love Manhattan and being there with my man is romantic, fun and exciting.
I believe, without a doubt, that I manifested my man and Manhattan through my preoccupation with “You’ve Got Mail”. I cannot explain why my opinion of the movie changed or why I became obsessed with it, but obviously that film was filling some need in my life. By watching it many times, I attracted a man to love, a man who also loved Manhattan and would later delight in introducing me to his favorite city.
Right now, we are all manifesting, whether we realize it or not. We may be manifesting the same sort of experiences that currently fill our lives - perhaps they are good, perhaps not. We may need a change and, without realizing it, we start creating that change by focusing on something different. In my case, the “something different” was a movie.
If we can manifest without knowledge, without conscious effort, imagine what we can do when we put the Law of Attraction to work purposefully!
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