The Perfect Ending.

It has been about a year since I got hooked on Sex and the City. I realize that this was a little late, considering the sixth season had already come and gone, and generally most people had either seen an episode or five, if not the all of the seasons. I did not though due to the lack of the tv channel that it aired on in my house. Finally a friend introduced me to the show and I got hooked.

The show soon became my favorite and I decided I would have to see them all from start to finish. Of course I would never be able to do this all at once, but every couple of months I would go rent a season on dvd and watch it... usually accompanied by a bag of chips and a pot of chamomile tea. It became a little tradition that I shared with myself, and today I just finished watching the sixth and final season.

I love the show for several reasons. The writing of the show is very smart and I find it terribly funny and witty. But to say that the show is just humorous would only be scratching the service. What makes the show so wonderful is the honesty it uses when approaching personal relationships. Over six seasons you see the characters experience love and heartache, sickness and loss, and you watch them as they make their next big move. It is such a popular show because it is so relatable.

Now I may never be able to experience the feeling of buying a $400 pair of Manolo shoes, live in New York and sleep with a bunch of men but that doesn't matter. It isn't about the specifics. It is about things that you experience everyday in your life. Love. Loss. Heartbreak. Friendship. I know what it feels like to love someone. I know what it feels like to lose someone. I know how it feels to be vulnerable. The details aren't important.

So, of course, I thought the ending was fabulous and closed the series up nicely. Everyone were in their own comfortable place. Everyone had their personal lives in order and everything was as it should be. But what I liked most about the way the series ended was that it really paid tribute to one of the greatest and toughest personal relationships one experiences in life; the relationship that must be healthy in order to have everything else fall into place. The relationship that you have with yourself.

"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."
- Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)