The Carrie Diaries

The Carrie Diaries is a book series written by Candace Bushnell. The series is a prequel to Sex and the City, and follows the character of Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and part of her life in New York working as a writer. Navigating the worlds of high school and Manhattan, she learns a lot about love, sex, friendship and family.

The story focuses on 17-year-old Carrie Bradshaw and the situations that surround her. Carrie is the older of two girls, and she lives with her lawyer father. Carrie secretly wants to attend school for journalism, but her father wants her to attend Brown and follow in his footsteps. The summer concluding her junior year, Carrie applies for a writing program but fails to gain acceptance. Although set back, Carrie won't let anything get in the way of her future writing career. She has four best friends and a stunning and attractive boyfriend named Sebastian Kydd. And at the end of story, she decides to leave the past behind her and chase her dream courageously.

Robert Frost once said, "Two roads diverged in the yellow woods, and sorry I could not travel both." Life is all about freedom and choice. Freedom of choice is what we want and freedom from choice is what we need.

The Carrie Diaries accompanied me through my tough and heart-broken time. They were all beautiful days that we used to spend with each other. We fell in love deeply with all our hearts. But the days that we were so into love had already gone. I was heart-broken, anguish and vulnerable with tears every night and was fear to open my eyes to face the truth in the next morning. I could not make the memory fade away, that unforgettable one that kept replaying itself in my brain along with the irregular and uncontrollable heart beats. Being frazzled with memories haunting in my heart, I knew I needed to learn how to get over and let go.

I think when we concentrate on too much on our end game, we can miss the fun of the journey and lose the detour that would take us somewhere even more rewarding. But sometimes the right determination for us is not easy to make. We all know we have to do the right things, and the sooner we do them, the better. Once we make up our minds and get it over with, and we don't have to worry about it anymore. Nevertheless few people can do this in real life, instead, we procrastinate, think about it, put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside our heads. Eventually we have to make that decision with pain, depression and despair, and soon a small shoot of hope will burgeon in our hearts. The Carrie Diaries may be my light during my darkest moments. I try to survive from my frustration, sorrow and disappointment. I believe I can live a better life with a better one.