Who Doesn't Want to Be Extraordinary?
In the Grey's Anatomy season finale last week, Meredith finally has a break-through where her mother is concerned. In the end she realizes that, when her mother tried to commit suicide over Richard leaving, she didn't really want to die. Even more importantly to Meredith, during that suicide attempt, when she told Meredith to be extraordinary, she didn't mean to be an extraordinary surgeon.
She meant for Meredith to be extraordinary in love. It took Meredith this long to figure it out, and once she did, she followed through in a big way. She went out and got "all whole and healed." She 'built' her and Derek's house complete with a room where their kids could play. A play where they could be extraordinary together.
My point here is that no matter the odds, no matter if you had a mother with unrealistic expectations of perfection or one who's narcissism left you feeling unimportant, there's hope. We can all go out and get "whole and healed." We can fight the demons left on our doorstep and go out to find that extraordinary love.
In the end, isn't that what we all really want? I mean seriously, raise your hand if, at the end of the episode, you didn't say, "That's what I want! I want extraordinary!" And, though some of us may believe extraordinary is the Holy Grail and maybe even that it doesn't even exist, the truth is that it does. It's out there. Somewhere.
Thoughts?












