Last night - even though it is tomorrow somewhere else when it is today here, I decided that work could wait. I decided to go see a late show of Sex in the City. Most definitely a fun chick flick! LOL!
It did reinforce this sense of peace I feel these days with where my life is today. The characters also viewed the 20 something as the "next generation." I felt the exact same way when I saw the young people at NASA that did today what I did 15-20 years ago. I saw them at the beginning of their careers - so full of hope - so young and so innocent in so many ways. I felt older and wiser and very content when I left. I felt very grown up.
And the characters are now 40 something and at a different phase in their lives. It wasn't just more of the same from the series. It doesn't diminish that past - it is just moving onto a different part of your life - a more peaceful, perhaps in some ways less exciting, less glamorous and relatively more boring part of life.
Life doesn't feel as urgent as it did when I was younger. Now mind you I am not ready to sit in a rocking chair with a blanket over my knees. I guess I am grown up now - never thought I would ever say that...
There was a line in the movie that struck a cord with me "We arrived in NY as girls and now we are women." That sums up how I view my life today. I have very fond memories of my past - but I prefer to live in my today.
