After watching too many episodes of Sex and the City yesterday in my lethargic state a thought occurred to me. People always play that game, which one of the four characters are you? Friends have said I’m like Carrie because of this blog and the fun stuff it’s given me the chance to do, but I’m also as cynical as all hell which is a much more Miranda trait. I don’t get enough sex to be Sam but I’m not as uptight as Charlotte.
I sit and watch the show and at least every second episode there is something that gets me crying and I’ve always been a total romantic sap but throw in my cynicism and you have a strange contrast. Give me an example I hear you say. Here you go.
Take sleeping beauty for instance. If I stumbled across a beautiful princess asleep in the forest in a glass box, I’d be one of two things, one, looking around for the psycho nutbag that slipped her the rohypnol and put her in a box to asphyxiate or, two, the dickhead that slipped her the rohypnol in the first place so that I could tick her into thinking I saved her.
Rumplestilskin? Short man with power issues stealing a child equals pedophile.
Cinderella and her Prince Charming? They meet at a party wearing masks pretending to be someone else, they dance once and he stalks the entire city with her shoe. Codependent game players with a foot fetish anyone? Their son will end up a drag queen.
As cynical as I am, I’m still keeping an eye out on the off chance a gorgeous prince on a white horse rides up to my door.
Bloody hell Brenton! How long is it going to take you to realise how many of your blog readers out there are totally, hopelessly head over heels in love with you??? Stop looking for love and let it come to you. The moment you truly accept, and not just pay lip service to the concept, that you are OK on your own and happy with yourself, then *WHAM!* love will find you. You are absolutley gorgeous, have a stunning body and great *ahem* attributes (yes we’ve al seen them on the other blogs). You are articulate, funny, intelligent, talented, oh god I could go on praising you to the skies, but until you come to accept that you are indeed all of these things, true happiness and love will steer clear of you.
Charlotte is not uptight. Shes a romantic with naivette mixed in. Uncomplicated and every bit as charming as the other Girls. Can you tell that most say I’m like Charlotte,, lol
Been reading for your blog for a few years now…
All I really wish add would be that the greatest thing we can do for ourselves is to live life in the moment…to embrace what cards are dealt to us, and to realise our full potential on every level.
Part of that is letting go, and opening ourselves up to -when- that man comes along, but in the interim still living life to the fullest.
I’d like to say that the trouble with shows like Sex and the City, (and Friends and so many others) are that they are written…made up. Yep they take elements that happen in people’s lives but manufacturer characters and a story which…yep we love. And there is nothing wrong with that so long as we realise that it is entertainment and not much in connection with reality.
Prince Charming will rock up while you go on doing all those amazing things you do with your life; it could be the guy that offers to spot (or vice versa) at the gym…but you will hit it off…because initially there was nothing more than the offer to spot.