shades of grey

Those who speak with me often or actually listen (lol) would know that I am currently obsess to this new TV Series call Grey’s Anatomy (which I sincerely thank my beloved friend Marua for it).
This new blog entry is because I wish to introduce you to this amazing little piece of world in which each episodes Meredith, Derek, George, Izzie and Alex (just to mention a few of my favorites) take us in Seattle Grace.

“Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey”

This so called “shades of grey” believe it or not have made me change through every season. Each chapter brings with it an amazing story that not only teaches you some medical terms and surgeon movements but it also makes you reflect about meanings of life and purposes.

As everything in life it all started with sex,
When a naïve intern moved aside “society principles” and slept with a renowned brain surgeon (also called, one night stand) not knowing that it will later lead to, what I call, the story of her life.

MEREDITH: [narrating] "Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday or if you'd get to eat cookies for breakfast. Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean seriously, don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, it really does suck. Really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and earn a living and pay the rent. And if you're training to be a surgeon, holding a human heart in your hands, hello? Talk about responsibility. Kind of makes bikes and cookies look really, really good, doesn't it? The scariest part about responsibility? When you screw up and let it slip right through your fingers."

That’s the real Meredith.

As this “real Meredith” captures all my attention each Thursday night, and amazingly keeps me from falling asleep as I usually do, things that I believe in or even thought were different suddenly start to change.

Now I believe that each and every single one of us has a surgeon inside, because as surgeons ignore their needs to meet their patients need, we frequently find ourselves ignoring or stop doing things that we really want just to please others needs or request, we sometimes ignore our friends and even family’s just to assist others friends and family’s.
As surgeons we take as much of the good as we can get because as you must know in a E.R doesn’t come around nearly as often as it should, so we try to take the good from the bad and just seize the moment ,but good thing’s aren’t always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love, is not always a good thing.
Like surgeons we live our lives on the “surgical unit”, 7 days a week 14hr a day, that is it for them, for others it might be slightly different but in the end, you it comes part of your life.
Rules are quite simple, no.1: always keep score, no.2: do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy, no.3: don’t make friend with the enemy, and no.4: everything, everything, is a competition. Whoever said winning wasn’t everything… never held a scalper or in other cases a good contract.
If you think about it life is all about lines. The finish line at the end of residency, a promotion or even a presidency, waiting in line for a chance at the operating table, waiting a chance to express yourself in an important meeting, the line separating you from the people you work with, or people who work for you.
In any way, you need boundaries, between you and the rest of the world. Other people can get far too messy. It’s all about lines... drawing lines in the sand and praying like hell no one crosses them.

This is just only a few examples but I believe we could find tons that will try to explain us that deep inside we are like surgeons and Meredith would say

MEREDITH: "To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture, and close. But sometimes you’re faced with a cut that won’t heal. A cut that rips its stitches wide open. They say that practice makes perfect."

I agree.
Find out who you really are and go ahead, do it on purpose, but believe it, believe that you are really good it in, don’t get greedy, but outstand your own expectations. Take the risk and fall, but knowing always that you can handle that risk and when you are face to face with that “cut” that won’t heal open up and let it flow, learn from it.
“They say practice makes perfect”, now I’ll quote one of the most amazing people I’ve met, my dad, maybe he quoted some other guy, but who cares, at the end words are indeed made to be spread. He said: “not always you need to live certain things to learn from it, sometimes by stepping outside of the box, and stare you could also learn”

Now, take a minute and think.
Do you… see things in black and white or do you wish or actually see things in shades of grey?!