Okay, so I'm a fan of that show - Grey's Anatomy. I may not be a buy the box-set kind of person. But I have been known to switch off my phone and shut myself off from the world and curl up on the couch to watch it. Every once in a while, the voice-overs at the beginning and the end come up with startlingly accurate observations. Well, to be honest, so far there have been two which I identified with so much that they have stuck in my mind.
There was an episode in the first season when Meredith talks about how sometimes there is no such thing as too much. And then last night, it was about trading - trading people for dreams.Or more accurately about trading love for dreams.
The first part , I really truly believe now. Sometimes there really is no such thing as too much. I don't believe that you can ever love too much or dream too much or hope too much. Maybe , or rather most definitely, loving too much or dreaming too much or hoping too much can break you. It can really ,really incapacitate you for life. And yes, more often than not, some survival instinct keeps you from doing any of that. But every once in a while, or maybe once in a lifetime, you do. You do love too much and you do dream too much and you do hope too much. And also, because this is life and not a television show, things don't turn out the way you want it to. And yet,you cannot help yourself. You persist. Sometimes, I wonder why. And pat comes the answer - what else is there, really?
As for trading dreams for love. I can say in this moment,that in each of our lives there comes a time, when we would give up everything for love. I don't necessarily mean romantic love. But love. I never thought that I would ever be in that position. or make such a claim. But it turns out , I am capable of it too. There was a time when I thought that that would be a sign of weakness .But knowing what I know now, I can safely say that far from being a sign of weakness it has strengthened me in ways I am only beginning to discover...
