Grey's Anatomy Episode #45: Even jols can provoke intellectual thought

Life is full of risks, some of which are blatantly plastered with enter-at-your-own-risk-warnings all over them, others not. Cigarette smokers are much too familiar (and therefore complacent) with the large block letters which read "SMOKING KILLS" on their cigarette packets (unless they roll their own...), whilst the much smaller block letters "Contains phenylalanine. Excess consumption may have a laxative effect" is also commonly ignored by those who love gum or jols. Those who watch Grey's Anatomy, or rather, are lucky enough to wind up in OR's with melodramatic - but quite cute looking - neurosurgeons and interns, will know that there is always some degree of risk (even if it's small) to any surgery. Unfortunately, one of the only things Grey's Anatomy has in common with real life is the fact that sometimes the risks of not going ahead with the surgery, metaphorically speaking, are equal to (or sometimes worse than) those of the surgery itself. And sometimes, the risks are unknown until you take the plunge down a (more often than not) no-returns deep well. But, if you think about it, it's often better not to be warned of the risks prior to taking the plunge and have that familiar voice singing "I told you so" in your head (or occassionally out loud) afterwards. 'Cause even when we do see the warning signs long before hand, we always ignore them. And on the rare occasion when you don't ignore the seemingly harmless block letters on the back of your second packet of extra for the day and are reminded "Excess consumption may have a laxative effect", the risks are never certain. So as I chuck out my empty packet of jols after only a day (and after having written this well refined blog, unlike my last) I really couldn't care less about what the side of the packet says - never have and never will. Not unless I stumble down that deep no-returns well. Until then, I'm off to start another packet of jols.