Let's Talk About Sex and the City

Lately, I have rewatched "Sex and the City." I began watching the show in my early 20s when I was a broke college student. Like most young women, I loved seeing four gal pals conquer NYC in style with slews of men on their rosters. Shockingly, I never had a huge desire to move to NYC after watching the show. I, however, did have a desire to make friends that I could see myself going through major life events with. I have now rewatched it in my late 20s, and my perspective about how I see myself in the characters has changed drastically.

The show is an enigma. Anybody who watched the series believed they were some form of one of the four women. You were either a Carrie, a Charlotte, a Miranda, or a Samantha. While watching the show in college, I was pinned as a Miranda. In a few ways, I could see why. She is ambitious, career-oriented, and insanely structured. I was the same way in that time of my life. However, it was mainly because I had zero mediums of self-expression and did not feel comfortable with myself. People perceived me to be "Type-A" and a "stick-in-the-mud," but I was a ticking time-bomb of creativity and eccentricity. Once I became more comfortable with myself, I realized I really was not a Miranda at all.

So who am I? I definitely am not a Samantha. While she is the most iconic character of the entire series, she is in a lane of her own that I likely could never signal my way into. Carrie and Mr. Big drive me absolutely insane. I do not relate to that rollercoaster called a love life that Carrie constantly forces us to believe is magical. However, her creativity and free-spirited aura resonates with me more than I realize. Then, there is Charlotte. As, I push towards my 30's, I relate to Charlotte in many ways. While she is more conservative in areas where I am the opposite, her lifestyle really fits the bill for me. A loving husband, an amazing pad in the Upper East Side, two adorable daughters, loads of cash, and a fabulous wardrobe; all of these things make sense in my head, just in a different font.

In other words, I would definitely be a Carrie-Charlotte hybrid. I think both characters highlight different facets of my personality that most people don't see. I'm eccentric, chaotic, free-spirited, creative, ostentatious, innovative, colorful, outgoing, and expensive. However, I can also be very polished, poised, aloof, traditional, reserved, and shrewd. I am a multifaceted human being that cannot be pigeonholed into just one box. This is a brag and a curse all at once. As we go through life, we change, and we grow. The biggest thing I have learned about all of this is allowing yourself to just be.

So, which character would you be? Or are you a combination of different characters? Let me in the comments!

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