Finde me some Scrubs

January 31, 2009 | Filed Under Point of View | 2 Comments 

>маси и столовеve now been watching the episodes of Scrubs chronologically. The first season was nice, interesting, funny, and something “different”. As time went on, I realized it has to be one of the best television serials ever made. It follows the lives of doctors in the Sacred Heart hospital – the characterization is very stark and it takes a while getting used to it but with time you begin appreciating each and every character in it.

Doctors have a tough life. They are constantly surrounded by real pain and suffering. They have to grow immune to all the pain and suffering along with the diseases they encounter. Scrubs does show us that deep inside them they also crumble like the rest of us.

Here’s another of my out of the box solutions for the world. Translate this tv serial in all the languages of the world and show it to each and everyone. Especially show them to people who think killing is a solution.

I am glad, I don’t have TV. (I watch Scrubs on my Laptop.) When I do have access to TV, I stumble on documentaries and News that is extremely disturbing. Last weekend I saw a show on the Australian Network, where a journalist goes to both Israel and Palestine and talks to people there. One footage shows a woman who is proud of her dead son who committed suicide bombing. She even encouraged him towards it. Another was an Israeli woman, who is living in her apparent “Zion”, and doesn’t really mind the attacks on Gaza. Why is it deeply disturbing to me…? It is for many reasons.

Not till long ago, I used to think that I didn’t understand these conflicts. I used to think that there is some deep emotional pain attached to it. Also there was no way I could relate to the pain. I haven’t gone through any such thing myself. But now I realize, there isn’t any real depth to it. And we human beings are such fools that we can fight for the flimsiest of reasons.

There don’t seem to be any reasonable people around. People who don’t have a ego. Even the smart, intelligent ones have an ego. It’s more than fuel to the fire.

Frankly, I don’t have much hope on Obama. I so wish Martin Luther King was around instead. But in these times his voice too would have been muffled. Obama seems like a nice guy but only time will tell if he is amongst those who listens to the voice of reason.

Also on the obnoxious tv channel – India TV, I saw a news broadcast where young children were trained to kill. 10-14 yr olds with AK 47s, rocket launchers etc. My grand ma was also watching along with me. She, who is a very religious person, could not get what was happening. I strangely felt very close to my grandmother that day. I didn’t know if the things that she was saying, came from a place where one has lived ones life and looks back at with some kind of secret knowledge or from a place where she was just being sensible.

I am in the middle of the 5th season of Scrubs. Everytime a patient dies, they feel like they have lost a war. I compare this fiction to the stark realities of life and in some vague way connect to the people who are writing these episodes. In reality we are out their killing ourselves on our own volition.

I realize how fragile life is, and yet we try to find our Zions and Pakistans. We fight for lands and not people. We have concepts like “our people”, “our nation”, “our religion”… and whatever that does not fall in this “our” category, we learn to hate it.

I would have been better off being fictional than real. At least that way I would belong to some “our” category.