Happy Glowy People
There’s an episode of Grey’s Anatomy where Cristina visits “derma” and the residents give her massages while they work, offer her raspberry drinks while she waits, and make her wait in a big pink chair…
Izzie and Meredith join her and wonder why the life of the derma people looks so easy and why they go crazy in surgery and basically why they put up with so much crap. Cristina responds, among other things, “We are not Happy Glowy people.”
That reminds me of the many times (I’ll exaggerate, but it was something like that) when I was in college and they would tell me you have to do this thing, you have to spend a week without sleeping working on this thing, researching for hours and if you’re lucky it might work, there’s also a magical button that does it for you, all you have to do is press it and it will definitely work…the same result as five days of clapping…but to learn, the button is prohibited because only difficult things teach us, only difficult things make us grow, only difficult things make us feel motivated and challenged, and all of that apparently makes us better and more satisfied…
And not just in college…life, society, whatever…keeps doing the same thing to us over and over again, challenges, winners, losers, social classes, positions to achieve, mountains to conquer, distances to run, will we ever say “I’ve arrived and I’m staying here”?
Why the hell?!?! Why can’t we just stay where we’re comfortable? What’s the extra thing? What’s wrong with an easy life? Safety? Plans? Life isn’t for that…life is for living…how am I supposed to live it if I’m always looking for more and more things? So that difficult things don’t surprise us? There will always be difficult things and we have to face them…but why make it harder than it needs to be…why can’t we enjoy the victory instead of being asked for a new one? Why do I torment myself? What am I not satisfied with? I guess Cristina is right…