One Day, One Room

As many people know, I have my "shows" that I get pretty into throughout the year: Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, and on occasion Scrubs and Smallville. The one other show I am particularly fond of at the present moment is House with Hugh Laurie. Normally Dr. Gregory House goes about diagnosing wild illnesses in patients that no one else is able to diagnose. However, this last week's episode was super deep. Since I can't give you the full rundown of the last few seasons of how House came about, I will give you the short half. House's boss, Dr. Cuddy, lied to the court saying he wasn't addicted to pain killers to keep him out of prison. To pay her back, Cuddy orders House to two days of nothing but clinic duty. Being the jerk that House is, he tries to find ways out of it by paying off anyone willing to leave, ordering unnecessary tests for a man with a cockroach in his ear... typical House stuff. Cuddy pulls him back into her office, desperate for a solution. She offers House $10 for every patient he can diagnose without touching. However, he will have to pay her $10 for every patient he does have to touch. So House starts plowing through patients without touching any of them.

The test results come back from the earlier STD patients, and the first two are clean. The third is a 20-something blonde female named Eve who tests positive. Eve breaks down in tears at the news even though House reassures her that Chlamydia isn't all that bad. House tries to hand her some pills, but Eve yells at him to not touch her. House goes to tell Cuddy to get a new doctor for this patient. Eve has been raped. Cuddy explains to Eve that the hospital will assign another doctor, but Eve insists on House. House says that he isn't interested in treating her because there is nothing to treat. She is perfectly healthy. Eve doesn't care, and only wants to talk to him

House waits for Eve to awake and he asks her what she wants. She only wants to talk to him - about anything. House goes to his team for advice, and they suggest he give the girl his conversation. Everyone gives him different advice which leaves him about where he started. So, House and Eve discuss where they went to college. House still gets no answer on why Eve trusts him. She inquires whether anything terrible has ever happened to him. He says that he was abused by his grandmother. His parents traveled and often left him with her. She was a strict disciplinarian. House never misbehaved when she was around because he was too afraid of being forced to sleep in the yard or of being made to take a bath in ice. He never told his parents.

Eve asks if any of his story is true, and House assures her that it all is. She again asks if it is true. House replies that it is the truth for somebody. House says, "These things happen, what do you care if it happened to me?" Eve then says, "But they are not in this room." House, "No, they're out there. Are you gonna base your whole life on who you got stuck in a room with?" Eve, "I'm gonna base this moment on who I am stuck in a room with. That's what life is. It's a series of rooms; and who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are."

This really stood out to me and really made me think. Is that what life is really like? Is life just a series of rooms? I know for me sometimes it feels that way. Sometimes when I talk to certain people, I feel like it's just us in a room together and all that matters is that one moment we have in that room. It's hard to explain. Let me know what you think about this great philosophical look at life. Do you agree or disagree? Do you have any examples of this happening to you? Maybe you don't want to talk about it. Maybe it was just One Day, and One Room.