Tonight I watched the season finale of Greys Anatomy. You know the thing I love about that show is the realistic views they share in thier dialogue. I mean, the story line is a bit far fetched..seriously who walks into a hospital to kill a surgeon and his staff? So with that aside, I do love the topics they tend to put into perspective. Take for example tonights episode...it was about choices in life, whether to fight or give up and at times realizing the choice may not even be in your hands.
The program started tonight with Meredith Grey talking about starting her day and loving her life...how lucky she was, just found out she is pregnant, career is going great and she is happily married. When she started out on this beautiful day, she had no idea everything in her world was going to change and that everything she loved, everything that made her happy and content was all going to be destroyed. She would no longer feel safe in her world, its a scary reality...but it can happen.
I know, trust me more than most people that many of us start out on our days with hopes and dreams, trusting that we will return home to our loved ones unharmed or damaged. We wake up, feed our children breakfast, clean the kitchen, prepare dinner plans and then get ready for work. You never think, two minutes when you walk out your front door to start your day...that your day would never start. It would be halted abruptly without any warning, and changed without your consent...forever.
Those of you reading probably know people like this, maybe a friend diagnosed with cancer, a parent diagnosed with Alzehimers, a husband injured severly on the job or even a car accident that unfortunately shatters the world you once loved.
I do understand that this is just a tv program, and it is not real...but, being a nurse (for a short time) even more importantly being a mother who has lived in a hospital for months at a time, I have met these people. I have witnessed many of those tragedies, I have prayed, encouraged, cried with so many who set out to live their lives only to have it broken. Everything they knew, their comfort, safety and security all shaken by tragedy.
I think anyone who has lived through some sort of life changing event can relate to tonights episode, the words spoken were very close to the truth. We do have a choice in these moments, we can choose to live or choose to die. Most of us choose to live, its just an instinct...its those who die, really never do live again...and that's sad.
I choose life!!
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