here comes your ride
i happened to catch an episode of grey's anatomy : if tomorrow never comes. and as always, there's an intriguing quote at the start and the end:
Dr Meredith Grey: A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo?
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant.
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.i simply love all these quotes coz they sum up life's lesson so neatly
however, i caught Private Practice after that. the story was bout this couple who are getting tested to see y they can't have children. turns out, it was neither side's fault. the woman had a cervical cap done secretly so that she will not have children. her family has a history of Huntington's disease. so she had a 50% chance of inheriting the gene, and if she has the gene, then she'll definitely get the disease. so it's up to her whether she wants to get tested to determine if she'll get the disease, be a burden to her future children and pass it on to them.
so, in this case, can knowing be better than wondering? would u rather live ur life on a 50-50 chance than a 100% knowledge that u and ur children will suffer?
anyway, she did get the gene but i didn't catch the ending.
and school has officially started. time to dive head first into a shit pile of projs. i'm so loving it.
