Brevity is the soul of wit
Dr Meredith Grey's version of the importance of taking risks and trying:
'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. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. 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. '
And then we have YB Lim Guan Eng, saying this in fewer words:
'I don’t know whether or not we will succeed. I would rather fail trying rather than having failed to try.'
You see why I say that those writers for Grey's should just kill Meredith Grey and move on already?
June 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
As always, it is often easier to destroy the deformed rather than to reform it, huh?
June 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Actually, Meredith Grey’s version moved me more than Lim Guan Eng’s version, which I read in The Star yesterday.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
But it’s the writers’ fault to start with, no? Did you read about how Katherine Heigl refused her Emmy nomination, saying the writers had not given her adequate material?
I actually like her lines, but if it’s that annoying to you, don’t you think it’s the writers who should pick up the slack?
well yes and no. ellen pompeo has an annoying voice. the character of grey is written in such a way that she IS meant to be annoying. Her lines have to be like that (that’s where the writers are pretty genius, because I tried and its not easy to talk like meredith all the time, and they’ve done it successfully for over 4 seasons…), it doesn’t stop the fact that the character is bloody annoying, she’s meant to be annoying. its part of the script, and its the entire reason the show is successful and mortifyingly, lousy at the same time. Darn that stupid Grey.
and of course i agree with you. i just didn’t say it blatantly … hah but all my complaints about grey’s anatomy… who’s fault. the writers lah. Stupid in their geniuses.
Stupid grey.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
If the show pisses you off that much why continue to watch it?