Last night I saw the Sex and the City movie.  I loved it. I have never laughed, cried, been so excited and happy in a movie like I was when I saw this, in a very long time. There’s some background to this, though.

I was introduced to Sex and the City my junior year in college. My roommate, H, owned all the DVDs. After watching the first episode, I was hooked and it became a roommate ritual for all 4 of us to sit in front of the TV and watch ALL the episodes from start to finish, everyday. Sometimes we’d even forego getting to the bars early just to finish the next episode. When season 6 aired, we had a group of girls that would join us in watching every Tuesday night. We had vested so much time in this show - we watched, we learned, we followed and we dreamed, and though their lives were so different than ours, we all hoped someday to be living the “Sex and the City” life.

I made the first move and packed up (with no job or apartment) and went to NY for my first time. I wasn’t in it to find love or labels, though I do admit, I did find both. I wanted to live out my dream of being a NYC girl. I wanted to own my own pair of manolo blahniks (I still don’t), go to a fashion show and do things that other New Yorkers take for granted, like hailing cabs, taking the subway, and living in a walk-up building. This is the life that a valley girl from southern California can only dream of until she actually does it. You can visit New York, but you can’t experience it until you live here.

After seeing the movie and having so much of my life invested in these characters - seeing them live, love, grow, succeed and fail, I felt like that was me. People who merely watch the movie as just another movie may give it OK or bad reviews. For me, it was like a rollercoaster or laughter and tears. I not only am just a fan, I am living out the Sex and the City dream of living in New York

“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate… without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn’t fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it’s comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart… and if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away”