"How could two people who don't have anything in common be in relationship?"
Carrie Bradshaw asked herself this, related to her relationship with Aleksandr Petrovsky, a very famous Russian artist in season 6. His fame was world-wide, his colleagues were from anywhere. And apparently, Petrovsky's elit colleagues had judged Carrie's column as something far from art. Carrie's column on 'sex and the city' was apparently just a garbage for them.
Meanwhile, it is true that Carrie knew nothing about Petrovsky's famous arty work. Even when the first time Carrie accompanied Charlotte to attend Petrovsky's art exhibit, it was not because Carrie was interested in art; instead, she went there for Charlotte, her best friend who worked for an art gallery. Petrovsky's interest in Carrie made him date her and then they became lovers.
Petrovsky was interested in Carrie's column and her witty as well as smart character which can easily be seen in her articles. Nevertheless, knowing that Carrie was not arty, he never involved Carrie in his work. When he was very busy to prepare his exhibit in Paris, he didn't let Carrie come in his workshop. Therefore, when he got stuck in his work, he got emotional and Carrie could not help him anything, but lending her ears.
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Around 15 years ago, when I was very close to a best friend I called 'Abang', he asked me whether I wanted to know (and learned) anything about his job, or the way he viewed things that were probably different from my way. He asked me this since he had tried his best to view things from my point of view. (FYI, he read lots of my writing in my blogs back then.) Selfishly, I said no. lol.
Recently, I have started thinking something similar with this. My (biking) soul mate is an IT graduate; she is responsible any work related to this in her workplace. Besides, she has a knack in photography. Knowing this, I rely anything related to IT and photography on her, for sure. Lol. I don't wanna know more things about these two things by myself. Let her do whatever she has to do, no need to involve me, lol. This made me think, although we both are compatible (we communicate well in most topics) I sometimes do not know some things she handles every day. Ah, in this case, I still stay the same, selfish of me.
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| Srambang, Ngawi, December 2019 |
In addition, does she understand things I must handle every day? Are we two also like Carrie and Petrovsky? We have nothing in common? We have different taste of music, food, movies, and many other things. (but one thing though: biking, although recently, she seems no longer interested in it as much as years ago.)
PT56 10.57 24 August 2022
P,S.:
In fact, I have written something similar with this topic, lol, you can view it here
