While going for a ride on a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty on a tranquil Sunday morning on my own, I read on a paper that in 1626 a Dutch settler bought Manhattan from the native americans for goods valued at 24 $.
The name Manhattan comes from the Lenape language and means island of many hills.
But I like to believe another quite popular theory: that it comes from one of three Munsi words “Manahactanienk”, literally “place of inebriation“.
Who has been in NYC and did not feel this feeling? Is it not a place you all feel a little bewitched?
I wonder if it’s inebriation of those who love New York as the perfect city for singles, or those who have watched too many romantic movies where it is conceived as the city of love.
Woody Allen might believe that NYC is a romantic city, in quite a few of his movies people found love in the Big Apple, such as Manhattan, When Harry Met Sally and Annie Hall.
If you ever watched Sex and The City you might think about NYC as the place for Love.
Actually, Carrie Bradshow, says that women go to NYC for two L’s: Labels and Love.
The large amount of advertisements and fashion label storefronts were just like you see in the movies.
Without wanting to spoil anything I decided to take this blog a different way, to the second part of Carrie’s tagline: Love.
There are some movie scenes which you would watch and imagine thousand times.
For instance, if a stranger bumped into me and another stranger like Mr Big would help me pick my stuff up from the ground that fell out from my bag.
Yes, I am talking about Carrie meeting Mr Big for the first time.
Every body has had or has a Mr Big in their life. No matter if you are a loser or a winner in love, sometimes you have lived a relationship not with the same intensity of the other person.
Mr Big has been so far clearly emotionally unavailable, but sometimes you go with it anyway and deal with the emotions you may feel. Even when you know it will be automatically over when he kisses you goodbye.
No matter if you are in one of the coolest cities of the world, and the streets, lights and the people out here are calling you, the only thing you want is to stop the world in four walls (either if you are in a basement or at the floor 50 something of an amazing building in Manhattan).
While planning my trip I had dreamed about the perfect night that consisted of hopping in a yellow cab with Mr. Big, ending up in a 30’s style restaurant, and enjoying a Sucker Punch cocktail before delighting in a delicious meal.
And of the perfect morning waking up with a Nespresso coffee in one hand and a heavenly Sausalito cookie in the other while viewing a private dance to a song like “Sex is on fire” by Kings of Leon.
I was fortunate enough that some of the things I dreamt of actually came true.
It’s an absolutely amazing feeling when your heart is beating. No matter for who, no matter with who nor where.
Living independently on how it goes afterwards is good.
It helps and it is worth making mistakes and risking, otherwise we probably wouldn’t ever fall in love, we would not grow up and learn in life.
We wouldn’t know what makes your heart beat and what leaves you indifferent. It can be a great discovery every time.
Ending my blog, I would like to quote some Carrie’s sacred words on relationships.
“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.”
The Gipsy Twin 