Molly's Musings is for the random thoughts in life--some really deep, others very. . . Molly's Musings are meant to get you thinking, laughing or, preferably, both. If you leave this page feeling offended. . .well, you need to open up your mind a little and work on your sense of humor now, don't you? :-)

I started watching the show, "Grey's Anatomy," this past summer when ABC started rebroadcasting the episodes in order. I love that show because it's the type of show that can make you laugh and cry during the same episode and any show like that, is just awesome, in my opinion.

It's also a show that gives little nuggets to think about, which is something I've been missing ever since "Joan of Arcadia" went off the air and this past week's episode was no exception. The opening part of the show talked about wounds and scars and as typical with a "Grey's" episode, the ending of the show "wraps up" the subject that was brought up at the start of the show.

At the ending of this episode, the question was posed, "What's worse? New wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should have healed years ago but never did?" Then "Meredith" goes on to say, during this voice over, maybe over time, we like to think that they "remind us of where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future." But "some things we just have to learn over and over and over again." (please note: I tried to write it all down the best I could:-)

I think for a lot of people, the new wounds are a result of the old wounds never having healed and therefore, the painful lesson keeps getting replayed because it was never fully "mastered" from that initial wound. Healing a wound takes time and patience and tender care and with the healing process, there's some pain involved. One needs to think of it as a form of physical therapy--the process hurts but in the end, your limb or whatever heals during the process--same thing applies to an emotional wound. But far too many people don't allow the necessary time for that and they wind up getting hurt again and again and wonder why.

People will nuture their physical wounds to make sure they heal properly. It saddens me when I see that they don't nuture their emotional wounds the same way and they wind up limping through life.

Until next time.