Setting the Tone of this Blog

Yes I have been watching Sex and the City, and yes I have let my imagination run away to a happy place where Carrie's make believe world of sex, love, fashion, rich boyfriends and fabulously wealthy friends who never have money problems or jobs they don't enjoy, could possibly be my life one day. After I write a constantly witty and socially exposing and explorative blog on gay life in Sydney, that one days gets offered a book deal, that is then optioned for a TV series that changes society itself.   Sounds do-able to me.

And seeing as I was transparent enough to reference some of my inspiration, maybe I should make that my first topic point.  In a post Sex and the City world, where young girls (let’s say 15 +) and some young boys have grown up not knowing life before SATC hit the air ways, has the fairy tale life of Ms Bradshore, which is portrayed in a very believable way, caused the modern day aspirations of this generation to be set unrealistically high?

Instead of forming goals and dreams that were based on for example; everybody gets sick at some stage, and we are always going to need nurses to care for sick people, there for I should become a nurse.
Are young girls and boys all wanting to work in Creative fields, PR, Publishing, Magazines, Interior Design, or high paying roles such as Banking or Corporate whatever, where you are compensated amazingly disproportionately to the rest of society for your work?

I think gay youth is especially vulnerable to big dreams as we usually have to hide who we are from our classmates at school, we may be caring around a lot of gay pain that other youth don’t have, and hence we dream big and our dreams are our saving grace. We all go “One day……” be it successful careers, famous, wealthy, a hot partner and good looking our selves. I at least have always felt the need to be extraordinary, not ordinary, and I guess part of it came from knowing I would never be loved for who I was by the people I grew up around, so I had better be amazing so that people wouldn’t be able do anything but like me.

In conclusion, in a post Anthony Robins - Live your dreams, world, where teachers are teaching "do whatever will make you happy", how are young people going to reconcile their dreams to a post GFC world where we are fast realizing that the money is running out and all the excess that came with borrowed capital is unsustainable?
Is the new reality going to be a more 1950's suburban - teacher, nurse, police man expectation for a career......
And did Sex and the City encapsulate the USA and other western countries at their economic peak, which we will never surpass as wealth is more evenly distributed across the globe with the rise of the third world countries?

Relating this back to Gay life in Sydney, Grindr is changing the way we hook up, like the internet did in the late 90's, but it will become passé like face book did after we all used it too much.

People say the pent up sexual energy that came with being persecuted for being gay in the 70's and 80's, is dissipating, my personal life philosophy is "you only get one life, so your only responsibility is to have as much fun as you can, because you can never have your youth over again"
The Catholic tradition that I was raised in say "there is redemption to be found through suffering"
To bring all these threads together, Sydney is a wonderful city where we can have sexual freedom and fulfillment, at least in the inner city areas, with gay life reaching a new sexual norm for those who live it, where will the new frontier be?