If you ask anybody who knows me to tell you what my absolute favorite TV show is, they will tell you it’s "Grey’s Anatomy." I don’t know what it is about that show but I’ve watched the series three times in the past year. I know exactly what’s going to happen but I still get so excited, happy, and sad every time I watch it. If you asked me about Meredith and Derek’s relationship I could go on for hours. I just love everything about that show, from watching it a few times I’ve learned quite a lot of life lessons so here are five things that I learned from Grey’s Anatomy. #TeamMereDer
1. He is very dreamy but he isn't the sun
When you fall in love with someone they become your entire world. You do stupid things, for example Meredith was dating her boss, how well was that going to end? Christina (Meredith’s best friend) told Meredith she didn’t think it would end. Meredith was putting her all into a relationship when she should have been focused on work. Derek was very dreamy, but he was not the sun, Meredith was. You should absolutely fall in love, but you should fall in love with someone who let’s you shine just as much as they do.
2. You won’t learn if you don’t try
Meredith Grey once said:
“The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.”
I knew this before watching "Grey’s," but I love the quote because it’s all so true, we won’t know until we just do it, pull the possibilities from under the rug and go.
3. The carousel never stops turning
When you sit around being scared, sad, hurt, angry whatever it is that you are feeling, you have to realize that life hasn’t stopped moving, it won’t stop moving for any of us. Like Ellis Grey, Meredith’s mother said to her when she was a young child, “The carousel never stops turning” you need to handle whatever life throws at you, you can’t just give up you have to make it work.
4. You need a person
The world is a scary place if you don’t have people you can trust in it. Meredith was essentially on her own having a mother who was ill and her father being an alcoholic, she had to fend for herself. Fortunately for her she went to follow into her mother’s footsteps and become a surgeon at Seattle Grace Hospital where she would soon meet Christina Yang, who would become her person. A person is kind of like a best friend, only so much more. A person is someone who tells you that you are the sun, who holds your hand when things seem nearly impossible. Hell, they’d even cut you out of your wedding dress after you flee the altar and tell you everything was going to be okay and make sure they did everything in their power to make it okay. In my life I’m thankful to have found my person and I’m so lucky to have someone who would drop everything they were doing if and when I needed it.
5. Time heals
In the show Meredith went through hell and back. She almost died numerous times, her husband was shot, and he survived, and then he was hit by a semi truck, but unfortunately he didn’t make it; Meredith almost didn’t make it through that one. She realized there were worse things that could happen that it get's worse before it gets better and although it was awful then, it would get better through time. Eventually she would start to feel comfortable again, Derek was always in her heart, he just wasn’t there in the flesh.
It doesn’t matter what you’re going through, no matter how hard it gets it will get better, it may take time and a little bit of patience but it get’s better.
If I can pull life lessons out of a show and ramble them off like it’s nothing, I think it’s acceptable to watch a series a few times at least I’m learning something… Right?
