Is it just me or is anyone getting a little bit fed up with all chick-lit having a happy ending. I had high hopes when I started watching Sex and city (I know I’m a bit late on jumping on the bandwagon) but even that series ends on a high where everyone is in love and has what they always dreamed of. But as a not so lucky women of 21, instead of making me happy the final episode opens up more questions and provokes more emotions than all of the others put together. Of course in fiction they would all get their happy ever after endings but it is getting a little bit annoying. I don’t know if I am with my Mr Big, if I’ll ever find my true soul mate, if we even have somebody out there perfect for us waiting to be found: frankly I know nothing just like the majority of people. Even those who are married might wake up one day and realise they’re no longer happy. I thought you got more knowledgeable as you got older but I’m 21 now – an adult and yes I may know more things but nothing that helps when it comes to relationships. The truth is I still feel like an impostor in a frighteningly large world. Growing up isn’t easy but I thought that ended at 18, yet perhaps it actually carries on for your entire life. Do we even ever really feel ‘grown-up’?
As you first experience love as a young innocent thing, it is exciting, it’s amazing – dating, meeting new people, working out who you are – it is what shapes our futures, and provides the stories for later on in life. But what happens if we get lost, loose ourselves and find we’re even lost from everybody else as well. I feel old before I should be, but watching the beginnings of Sex and the city made me excited once more for life. I wanted to shed my connections and go out there with my girl friends and discover the world anew but as I watched on, slowly one by one the four paired off – even Samantha – and all around me people are doing the same. It would be easy to forget that we are all just 21. With my University life soon to come to a close I wonder where it is all going. Have I grown up already, is this it now? Or am I yet to change again. Maybe I’m just circulating with the wrong crowd, for all the coupled up there must be a hundred singletons all still on their adventure. And anyway who says coupling up, means the end of adventure. Perhaps I’ve just fallen off the rollercoaster – so hand me my best outfit and a Martini, I think it’s time to get back on.
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