Grey's Anatomy

I'm not sure if many of you watch the TV show Grey's Anatomy, but if you don't watch Grey's or know what it's about, it is a dramatic TV show that started in 2005 about medical doctors. The TV show deals with drama between love, death, hardships and life. It is more than just a medical show that just deals with things like surgery, patients, cancer, etc., but it is also about the personal lives of the characters in the show and what hardships they face. Grey's Anatomy has been going on for 8 seasons and just started the 9th season on September 27. I haven't watched the first episode of season 9 yet but I am so excited to watch it. Grey's Anatomy is such a depressing show that will almost always make you cry, but I am so addicted to this show. I know it sounds strange to be addicted to something that makes you cry, but the drama that goes on in this show just catches your attention so much. It's not stupid or silly drama either like the drama that goes on in the TV show Jersey Shore or Laguna Beach, but it's real life drama that people actually do face in this world. For example, everyone eventually faces heartbreak in their life at some point but in Grey's, heartbreak is portrayed in an adult mature way, meaning that when someone faces a heartbreak, that person doesn't go out to go find some other person to "hook-up" with as a rebound, but instead that person would show their true emotions towards the heartbreak and deal with it the best way that they can. 

My favorite part about Grey's is that the beginning and/or end of the show usually starts off with one of the main characters, Meredith Grey, saying some sort of quote or some words of wisdom. Some of them can relate to real life situations and others are more about doctors and medical things. Some examples of the words of wisdom said in the TV show are:

"What’s worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should’ve healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think. But that’s not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again."

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn'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 what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying. "

"I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope... "

I personally think that the quotes and words of wisdom are very inspiring. I think they can apply to real life situations and how to act upon them, or it can just be something to keep in mind to think about. I think that a lot of the quotes I hear in Grey's can apply to everyone and what they've faced in life as well. 

When Grey's Anatomy first started in 2005, there were 5 main characters with very different personalities: Meredith Grey, Alex Karev, Christina Yang, George O'Malley, and Isobel Stevens. Meredith is smart and strong, Alex is the good looking but arrogant guy, Christina is very egocentric and stubborn, George O'Malley is the nice and innocent guy, and Isobel Steven's is cheerful. It's good to have a show with different characters with different personalities because that way there's more drama and it keeps the show more entertaining. If you want to watch Grey's Anatomy it plays on CTV at 9:00 pm! I think you should all try watching it! :) 


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413573/quotes