House M.D

House M.D

Among all medical series that exist; House M.D was n will always be the one for me!

I don’t wanna talk about the story of House M.D series, rather I’d like to talk about the character of Dr. House which I’m fascinated by!

I know u all would expect me to fall for his badass character, narcissism, unsocial behaviors, but no! I fell for the reason behind that! through the series I’ve been lookin at him thoroughly,Why in the world is he like that?!!

I found out somethin; I don’t know! Shall I say sad?! weird?! or stupid?! Imagine this: (these were scattered in different episodes)

• He had a bossy strict military father, who abused him; bet him so bad; bet him for any simple fault a kid would do! What do u expect him to become?!

• he looked out for help from anyone but no one cared but is mom, n this is why she’s the only one he respects!

• he didn’t give up on people, n this reflects his goodness! They failed him many times, then asked God but didn’t get a quick answer, so he became an atheist!

• He wanted to impress others in any way he could; he wanted attention that no one gave!

• Once later he’d been to Japan n saw a doctor who was dressed badly, a badass character, no one liked him, but they all needed him; coz he always knew the answer when they all didn’t! So he had always gained his own respect forcibly! So a candle was let up in his mind; this is the way I’m gonna get it! n this is the way it was!
• His kind heart was never at rest, Just like anyone who’s not satisfied with what he does, this is not the way he wanna live; he’s in pain, lonely, has no friends but one who he was about to lose many times in many situations!

He always wanted someone to prove him wrong desperately, but no one actually saw that in his face! He kept actin rude to his staff, patients, etc, till this episode I saw (House.S05E15.Unfaithful), it changed ma view a lot, it changed the way I look at him, he’s nothin but another hurt man who can’t show his pain to anyone, coz u know, u can’t let ur enemies know where ur weakness is, n that’s the way he looked to the world!

In this episode he was treatin; let’s say an atheist young priest, somehow!, he was makin fun of him, coz God let him ”down”! here is the conversation:

House: Your job…
The priest: Sucks!

House: That’s my point. You can make more money frapping decafs, and yet you’re still ministering to the meek.
Why do the Lord’s work if the Lord has left the building?

The priest: I’ve been with the church my entire adult life. It’s my only marketable skill!

House sarcastin: I detect the stink of leftover faith.

The priest explodin the situation: You want to talk hypocrisy, what about you? You act like you don’t care about anyone, but here you are saving lives.

House correctin: Solving puzzles! Saving lives is just collateral damage!

The priest sarcastin: Yeah, nice try! I don’t think you’re looking for somebody to prove you right, I think you’re looking for somebody to prove you wrong …
to give you hope! You want to believe, don’t you?

then house started deflection, as usual sarcastin! but there was that look in his eyes! which answered on behalf of him; that reveled his truth:

”U’re right!” that’s what they said!

I know u all by now wonderin; why in the world would I try to defend a guy like this? What is it to me? What is the point I wanna reach by all of this, It’s just a movie, dah?!

I’ll tell u what is the point:

u know, some guys, good guys, when they face a huge problem, a problem they can do nothin about, they turn to the exact opposite extreme!

Some people when they tryin to be good n get hurt many times by the reasons they wanna be good for, they turn to the other extreme! So they become BaD! although they know what they’re doin is wrong! But they can do nothin about it! n u can’t judge them till u’re in their shoes, u can’t say that is stupid till u taste it! It’s not easy to understand but it’s true!

Just hope them mercy rests their souls! n in God we trust!

Asem Ghanim

5.10.2009