I’ve just started binging Sex and the City and I truly believe I am Carrie Bradshaw.
Uncooperative blonde waves flow through New York City on a journalist woman who is addicted to expensive shoes and writes her raw column. It’s the lifestyle I dream of!
Despite the sugarcoating of life in the city and relationship issues, there are deep-rooted issues that shine in this show that I live out in my daily life not so glamorously.
Money. Sex. Power. One can say that all three are the same.
Money and the City
Money has overcrowded my mind recently. The idea of attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism for one hundred thousand dollars, living in the city for four thousand dollars a month, and being able to continue buying luxurious makeup and clothes has been driving me insane.
Although Bradshaw makes good money in the show, her addictions to luxury and having a good time always lead her to not even have at least a twenty in her pocket.
I have these same addictions but don’t want to live in sacrifice. I don’t know anyone who’d want to.
Now, when I have any free time outside of school, work, my two internships, and leadership extracurricular positions, I hunt for money.
Anyway that I can obtain the lifestyle I so admire in Sex and the City, I do it. So far, I’ve tried making money as a content creator, and affiliate marketer, and opening up some businesses.
All I can say right now is it’s going like a taxi running trying to skirt past me as I wave it down.
I still have two years till I need to be steady here with my money. I’m no different in terms of every other college kid trying to make a living for themselves. Every one of them said they didn’t want to work the basic “9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.”
I honestly couldn’t care less about the days and times I work to make money for the life I want to live. As long as I’m passionate about what I do, it seems like no time is wasted.
Bradshaw has woven her career into her daily life. Her column passionately writes about her friend group and her sex life. It’s as if she spends all day every day working for her columnist career.
I think anyone today who is paid to write about their life and relationship problems would be ecstatic about the 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. lifestyle it takes.
Sex and the City
Despite how much I’ve fallen in love with this show so quickly, it’s hard to relate at this point to all of the relationship issues and men’s and women’s sex dynamics.
This year I met my boyfriend who I am madly in love with. We talk every day, shoot for dates every week, vacation in Cape May, and can’t get enough of each other.
But before meeting such a fabulous man, I could completely understand. I truly thought the dating pool in New York was just flooded with emotionally detached, self-serving, sex-driven men. These same qualities are present in the New York women as well.
The city is so largely populated that it’s like finding a needle in a haystack, I say, to find a genuine, respectful partner you connect with. The rest are like the rats that crowd the New York City sewers.
Right now I can’t say much else since I found my needle in New York City’s haystack.
Power and the City
Power. That is such a powerful word.
Something I yearn for so deeply amongst a billion other people.
What exactly is it?
In Sex and the City, power is the dynamics of money and sex as previously discussed. Although with the money or sex problems we humans may face daily, I think it’s too cliche and less significant to be power.
The Oxford Dictionary describes power in one of its definitions as “move or travel with great speed or force.”
The city is always moving with great speed or force whether it’s a man on a bicycle almost running a pedestrian over at fifty miles per hour or a woman running to catch the public bus to her job before she has to wait an hour or two for the next.
Everyone who comes to the city comes for the speed and force. Whether it be the speed and force to be one of the wealthiest or one of the sexiest, it’s still about the drive behind those factors. Not the factors of money or sex themselves.
The speed and force that power is are what make the city. And what makes Carrie Bradshaw?
She may speed across town, speed out of an awful date, or force herself to get up to meet her editor. But without her speed, force, and the city, her ideas of money, sex, and power would be nothing.
