lessons from gregory house, md

i'm currently addicted to watching how house unfolds.
you gotta hand it to hugh laurie.
he's got that dour, sour, sarcastic,
i'm-an-arse-i-know-and-i-don't-care-if-you-hate-me
attitude down to an art. no wonder he's won emmys.

one lesson i've learned from watching that show
is not about everybody lying. while it's true that everybody lies
-- anywhere between a teensy-weensy-minutely-microscopic lie
to the great grand daddy of all lies,
everybody will at some point in their lives lie,
that wasn't the lesson.
the one lesson i learned is to never stop asking why.
to never stop trying to solve the puzzle.
while the lying is never excused, at least, after all that digging,
conjecturing and figuring out, when you do find out,
it at least helps you understand why the lying happened in the first place.
it may or may not make you feel better.
but at least you understand.
it doesn't matter whether the understanding
is cerebral or emotional. at least you understand.

that, to me, is what matters.