A scene from Grey's Anatomy
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| Thu, 02-18-2010 - 8:43am |
Interesting how this show seems to ALWAYS have a scene that hits me right in the gut. I just watched last week's episode (2/11/10) last night. I am not sure how many of you saw it, so I just want to set up this scene:
The roof of a restaurant collapses on Valentine's Day and Seattle Grace is flooded with injured patrons and employees. A married couple is admitted, along with one of the employees from the restaurant. The husband is in worse condition than the wife and he is admitted to surgery immediately. The wife is set up in a room and the employee of the restaurant pays Alex to be placed in the same room with her. The scene unfolds and the employee reveals that he has been in love with the wife for more than 15 years. Later in the episode, the wife is speaking to Meredith, who assumes that the wife is also in love with the employee. The wife reveals that 15 years ago she made a choice. She chose to marry her husband and makes that same choice everyday.
I was crying before I even realized I had been affected by that statement. We all make choices everyday. We made a choice to enter our A, we made a choice to betray ourselves and our spouses (if we have them), and we made a choice to end it. And everyday we make the choice to remain in NC and everyday we make the choice to work on our RL's. When phrased like this, it gives me a sense of control. I make the choice, as do all of you.
Hope this hits close for some of you and gives you that same feeling of control that I am feeling today.

Jane -
Thank you for this post.
I saw that episode, too.
NC/LC since January 28, 2010
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Edited 3/11/2010 6:30 pm ET by hazelrose2009