Grey's Anatomy Life Lessons

I have always loved the beginning and end of Grey's Anatomy where meredith talks. They usually have insightful thoughts so I thought i would start writing them down as I went through the seasons. I'm going to start at the first episode and just keep going :)

 

 

It’s a common belief that positive thinking leads to a happier, healthier life. As children, we’re told to smile and be cheerful and put on a happy face. As adults, we’re told to look on the bright side, to make lemonade, see glasses as half full. Sometimes reality can get in the way of our ability to act the happy part though. Your health can fail, boyfriends can cheat, friends can disappoint. It’s in these moments when you just want to get real, drop the act and be your true, scared, unhappy self.
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Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer’s simple: To be happy. Maybe it’s this expectation, the wanting to be happy, that keeps us from getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss the more confused we get to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling, trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were. Until eventually, it hits us. It’s been there all along. Not in our dreams, our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar.

- Meredith Grey (Season6, Ep.22-Shiny Happy People)

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