Alright, this is a tough thing for me to confess because I've spent a lot of time making fun of this show over the years, but I thought the first season of Grey's Anatomy was good.
I know, I know. It hurt me to put it into writing.
Barbara and I burned through season 1, but I drifted off after that. She still rewatches the whole show once a year.
I remember at the end of every episode, Grey would recap everything that had happened, talk about what she learned, and make some point tying the whole thing together. Grey's Anatomy has a team of writers who are paid to tell a cohesive story, so the lesson was always pretty evident.
Grey's little recap should be familiar to us because we all like to narrate our lives, often in retrospect and often to rationalize and justify what happened and our role in it. We don't have a team of writers, so we often create meaning from random events.
Even worse, we often use this storytelling as a form of self-deception by imposing meaning to suit our wants and needs while pretending it is an objective perception of what happened.
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