[voiceover] The surgical scalpel is made of sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself, that means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves too. There's constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process. But without it, you'll find yourself moving backwards instead of forwards.
“Valentine's Day Massacre” · Season 6, Episode 14
In this episode: Lexie Grey (3), Meredith Grey (2), Alex Karev (1), Mark Sloan (1), Jackson Avery (1)
It must suck to work on Valentine's Day. I don't believe we've met... [Lexie turns around and looks at him] Ahhh! What'd you do to your hair?
I changed it. I.. I colored it. I just... [sighs] Wait, you thought I was someone else. You didn't know it was me, and you were hitting on me?
No, no... I pretty much thought that you were some blonde.
You are pathetic. And hypocritical. And slutty.
And you are no blonde. You can't pull that off. Blondes are either bad-ass or fun. And you're... you're a brunette.
Quit staring, I'm probably change it back anyway.
No, I get it. You get dumped by your boyfriend, and you go for the extreme makeover. Chicks always do that.
I didn't get dumped, okay? I did not do this for Mark. I just... It's Valentine's Day and I wanted to change something, and I could change... I wanted to do something for me. Okay? This, it was for me.
How's that different than what I just said? [walks off]
I'm changing it back.
So, Yang's with Hunt, Grey's with Shepherd, Torres with Robbins. And you were with Sloan, until he dumped you? It's a wonder you guys got any work done.
He didn't dump me. He forgot about me. He decided that we were going to start a family, and didn't ask me. He forgot I was even there. He left me lying in dirty dishwater.
What?
Nothing.
I'm pretty.
What?
In my family I'm the pretty one. You know, my eyes, and my smile and my body. I meam, you should see me without shirt on, it's kind of ridiculous. But my family is smart, driven, crazy overachievers. You know? And they look like they're smart. They don't look like me. Which has its perks, except that my family treated me like I'm pretty. They expected nothing from me. Ever. They never pushed me, never thought to. So I had to push myself. Hard. I didn't even tell them I was taking the MCAT's until after I aced them. My point is that you can't just change your hair. Okay? You wanna be unforgettable, you wanna not be mousey? You can't just change your hair. You have to actually change. Just sayin'.
[voiceover] We have to keep reinventing ourselves almost every minute because the world can change in an instant, and there's no time for looking back. Sometimes the changes are forced on us, sometimes they happen by accident, and we make the most of them. We have to constantly come up with new ways to fix ourselves. So we change, we adapt, we create new versions of ourselves. We just need to be sure that this one is an improvement over the last.
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