[voiceover] The baby you have is the baby you were destined to have. It was meant to be. That's what all the adoption people tell you. Anyway... I like to think it's true, but everything else in the world seems so completly random. What if one little thing I said or did could have made it all fall apart? What if I've choosen another life for myself? Or another person? We might have never found each other. What if I've been raised differently? What if my mother had never been sick? What if I've actually had a good father? What if...? What if...? What if...?
“If/Then” · Season 8, Episode 13
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Alex Karev (1), Miranda Bailey (1), Richard Webber (1)
[Alternate universe]
What the hell is wrong with me?
I just lost my job. Do you see me crying? I have no earthly idea what to do next, but am I hiding in an elevator, whimpering about it?
No.
No. Because what do we say, Alex? What do we say? "We create our own destiny."
[Alternate universe]
Meredith!
No, Dad. Don't come and clean up after her again. You do it every time and it's beneath you and it's pointless. I can't do anything right for her.
Your mother doesn't...
And I finally figured out why. She wants everyone around her to be ordinary, so she can be extraordinary. She wants everyone around her small!
Oh, you stop it!
And that's what she's done to you. She has made you small, and I'm not gonna let her do it to me.
[voiceover] Your life is a gift. Accept it. No matter how screwed up or how painful it seems to be. Somethings are going to work out as if they were destined to happen... As if they were just meant to be.
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