Single in the City

A lifeline! Sex and the City! The perfect half-hour shot of encouragement, balm for the battered soul (sexual and otherwise), and reaffirmation that all is well with the world, I am as normal as the average single woman and let not the world tell me otherwise!

Strange as it seems, more than my colleagues or peers, I relate to four single women from Manhattan who, don’t even exist! Fantastic!

Watching all those episodes (I was doing a 4 hr, 12 episode marathon with one bad DVD thrown in), I realized that problems/issues/incidents in a single woman’s life are the same across the world and possibly the universe ( I am sure single Martians of the female gender are made to believe in a shelf life too).

Why is it that when they discuss dreamboat men who turn out to be total jerks, it sounds familiar? When they show “the girls” being totally pained and irritated at a baby shower, why does the dialogue sound remarkably like what you actually told your friend when he was going on for the 314^thtime, about how the baby pooped! They show smug married couples and women rubbished for being single, and Why? Oh,Why? is it more than faintly reminiscent of the conversation with a friend (much married of course) from the US.

In some ways, it is very comforting to know that what I experience is not a stand-alone, afflicts one person in a billion conditions. More power to these women! May their tribe grow… (fictional and otherwise)

The blog and me

svairini - thats me...rather a word that signifies most of what i believe in and stand for.
Its a Sanskrit word that means bold, unattached woman of independant means who chooses not to wed any man.
Its also a sadly misinterpreted word (say like gauche, sinister) that over the years was also used to describe lesbians and the like...
Basically, woman...be allied to a man or you are not normal.
That one phrase- not normal, pretty much sums up what most people think of me. But then, they dont matter.
I am proud to be a svairini, an independant woman who chooses to be single, a quirkyalone to use a more contemporary word. An Indian woman with sensibilities that could belong any place - Delhi, Bangalore, London or New York
P.S: This blog is also dedicated to other fans of Michael Schumacher, George Clooney, high-tech gadgetry, fast cars and slow men(are there any other kind ;-), not necessarily in that order