Meredith (opening
voiceover): When something begins, you generally have no idea
how it’s going to end. The house you’re going to sell becomes your
home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and
the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of
your life.
George: Are
you sure you want to? Why do you want to cut off your leg just to go to
the war? Don’t you have family?
Charlie:
You know what it’s like to have family who don’t know you? Don’t get
you or maybe don’t like you?
George:
Yeah, actually I have brothers.
Charlie: Me
too. So there’s that family. The guys I grew up with and we’ve got
nothing in common. And then there’s my guys in Iraq, my real family.
Whatever we got into, we’re in it together. But here, I’m alone, I’m
nobody. And I’ve tried, you know, I’ve tried fitting in here, I’ve
tried being a regular person, I’ve tried getting a job but there aren’t
any. There are a lot of thing I’ve wanted to be in my life, a lot of
things that I’ve wanted to do. But none of them is here.
Charlie:
You think I don’t know that? You think I want to cut my leg off? Of
course not. Am I sure about this? No. The only think I’m sure about is
I am in hell right now. That I am sure of. I’ve lost everything,
everything I’ve worked for, everything I’ve cared about. I’ve traded in
for a 6 days a week pay pill that doesn’t even work. So don’t waste
both our time to scare me because you do not scare me Dr Torres. After
everything I’ve been through nothing scares me. So are we going to do
this or not?
Meredith (closing
voiceover): We spend our whole lives worrying about the future,
planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring
it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The
future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one
thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never
the way we imagined it.
