I wonder...

I just finished watching Thursday night's season finale of Grey's Anatomy. When it first premiered I was finishing up at Tennessee and trying to transition back to living at home and I think the first three years of life in Fayetteville was a blur, so I missed all of the hoopla and frenzy surrounding grey's. This fall I realized I had nearly every Thursday night without a home game and decided I needed something to follow (why I decided that I'm not sure). I had seen enough reruns of Grey's and watched enough pieces of episodes with friends that I knew most of the general storylines.

Sometimes I wonder why I felt like I needed to get hooked on another tv show... especially after just spending nearly two hours of my free Saturday night watching the stressful, emotional season finale. Some lessons I can take away from the episode... (warning SPOILERS for anyone who hasn't watched and might want to later... if facebook didn't already ruin it thursday night)

1. eat more bacon... when Karev thought he was dying he made sure to let Sloan know he should eat more bacon

2. Oprah gives good advice... April was next in the shooter's sights but she started spitting out random "personal details" about herself before the shooter finally told her to run. April told Yang she had heard it on Oprah once. So... when you come across a shooter, make yourself appear human and share personal details and you won't get shot... evidently April proved it.

3. Questions of life and death bring people together... Of course Callie and Arizona reunite... Owen realizes he loves Christina... everyone is forced to figure out who they wouldn't want to live without. The part that I think becomes more messy and the show kind of glosses over is when you figure out who you wouldn't want to live without and that person picks someone else. Teddy is left watching Owen pick Christina and seems perfectly content. I think Lexie is going to have to realize that Karev is not quite picking her over Izzy yet but she ignored it in the life or death moment. Regardless... I kept putting myself in that situation thinking about who I couldn't live without... thinking about who I wanted to call and fix things with or just try to pick up a dormant friendship. Unfortunately, I don't think I'd always be picked... so I think the bigger lesson can be to be content with who you pick even if they don't pick you.

4. Voiceovers are still my favorite... One of my favorite parts of One Tree Hill has always been the voiceovers... which are far too infrequent these days now that we're trying to move on without Lucas... but Derek filled in the gap for me on Grey's...

"Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. Live or die. Hero or coward. Fight or give in. I'll say it again to make sure you hear me. The human life is made up of choices. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands."

Just some thoughts... trying to map out my summer since I am officially free nights and weekends until August! I want to use this summer wisely... I want to become stronger... more passionate... I want to be smarter and I want to live bigger. Here's to seeking out all the best God has for me.
"You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus." - philippians 4:19