Just like the movies please!

With the looming release of the much anticipate Sex and the City 2 movie, I have been pondering recently on the subject of my relationship with the ladies in my life.
The real question playing on my mind is “Are movie friendships like movie romances? Do they actually happen in real life?”

(Scenes from Sleepless in Seattle and Sex and the City)

I’m waiting with breath that is baited for the next instalment of the fabulous four. I love the idea that your ladies are your soul mates and that the men in your life are a bonus. This is an idea that I would love to emulate in my everyday life. After all, isn’t it your ladies that you turn to when things are rocky with your man? And isn’t it the same ladies that you gloat to when things are wonderful with you man? This ideal seems to only exist in movie world.

Feeling inspired by the SATC set, I have been trying to organise a ladies night out to see and movie, drink cocktails and generally be fabulous with the ladies who are important in my life. Actually getting this event off the ground has been a mammoth task in itself!

You see, in movie world an event like this would inspire the full cooperation of all involved. In the cold harsh light of day AKA the real world I almost want to cry for even trying to organise something nice for all the girls! For every eager attendee who has been as excited about this as I have been there have been two or three “Maybe” or flat out “No” (without so much as an explanation) unattendees.

Its funny though, last night I was at one of the attendee’s home desperately trying to catch her up on the series so that the second movie makes sense to her (I don’t care what they say, this movie require much more background knowledge than the first movie). Said lovely attendee is up to Season 5, we were watching episode 2 when Carrie posed a poignant question.

She “couldn’t help but wonder” about how her friends were going to work though all the ups and downs, though heart breaks and make ups, and marriages and kids in the future. Carrie was wondering this when she and her friends are mid to late 30’s. I can’t help but wonder about that now! What has happened in our early to mid 20’s lives that we have no time for a ladies night out?

Maybe my expectations for friendship are too high. I learnt pretty early on that the love you see in the movies does not exist in real like. If it existed in real life there would be no need to go to the movies. So, maybe its time to learn that movie friendships don’t happen in real life either, and if they did exist, then that would void the need for shows and movies such as SATC.

(Thank you HBO for the pic!)