[voiceover] The dream is this - that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals: find the guy, finish our internship, that's the dream. Then we get there. And if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we'd like to wake up. Now, please!
“The Other Side of This Life” · Season 3, Episode 22
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Cristina Yang (1), Callie Torres (1), Addison (1)
Okay. I rescheduled an ACL repair, but I want to be clear: I will not be wearing pink or baby blue. I do not do flowers in my hair. And I will never be seen with a bow on my ass, okay?
See? She's got the right attitude.
NNaomi
Addison, I did everything exactly the way I was supposed to. After college, I never dated anyone except Sam, because he was the one. I never had sex with Sam, because cheating is wrong. I had a baby, because that's what you do when you get married. I never made a single mistake, I did everything right. And then Sam comes home and says he wants a divorce. So all those photos you're busy admiring, all they are are reminders of stuff I didn't do. I'm 38 years old, and I don't know how to have fun. That's not lucky, that's sad! So, just shut up about lucky!
Poor, sad, dried up Naomi.
NNaomi
Shut up.
Poor, little, special, talented, doctor girl. That may be good for a TV movie, but... poor, little, special, dried up girl, who has no fun.
NNaomi
I can put you out. You'd have to sleep in the car. You're just... [sighs] I just wish I'd been a little bit more like you.
What, an adulteress bitch who forgot to have kids?
CCooper
That's the point. I thought I was done being single. I thought she was going to be the mother of my children.
SSam
What was her name, again?
CCooper
sexyboobs316.
PPete
Are you... dude are you crying?
CCooper
No.
SSam
You better be crying about that car, not over sexyboobs315.
CCooper
316!
[voiceover] At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves the reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But the strongest of us, the most determined of us, we hold onto the dream, or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We awake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.
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