[voiceover] Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year — just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year, bringing on the great tradition of new year's resolutions. Put your past behind you and start over. It's hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed.
“Begin the Begin” · Season 2, Episode 13
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Derek Shepherd (1), Izzie Stevens (1), George O'Malley (1), Addison (1)
Such a good dog! Who's Mommy's good boy? You're such a good boy. [Turns and looks at Izzie and George] What are you guys doing in there, we're gonna be late.
We need to talk about the dog.
That's not a dog, it's a hyena that escaped from the zoo, dressed in dog clothing.
Whatever. I don't chew up his clothes. I don't urinate on his bed. I don't try to mount him from behind.
People, he's our dog. We love our dog. He loves us.
He tries to mount you from behind?
He tries to.
[to Addison] There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and you are their queen.
I am fine.
Except when you're shrieking about trout.
I was not shrieking about trout.
You're right, you weren't. You were shrieking about Meredith.
No, I was shrieking about the trailer. I hate the trailer.
Oh, okay so the past three weeks have been about the trailer.
Yes.
Not about the fact that I said I love Meredith.
Loved.
What?
You said you loved her, past tense.
Right, yes, past tense.
Well, then I have been shrieking about the trailer.
[voiceover] Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, not a new year. It's an event — big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning. But it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.
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