Being optimistic, being pessimistic, Being selfless, being self-centered

Last night I watched another episode of Dr.Hose MD, "The Mistake"

I am not here to see 'the mistake' of Dr.Chase,
but, it's about the end of this episode,
about the dying sister and her younger brother.

It went like that...
err... I did't catch the opening of this episode, therefore, I didn't follow how the sister fall sick,
(I switched to the wrong channel, trying to find out who will be THE patient of this episode, happily and confidently explaining to Mak how the 'formulae' is, of this show. ie. usually at the beginning of an episode, there will be an activity, with lots of people and the camera will focus on one person, however, the real patient will be those 'side dish'... Ah!! there it was, a family garden party, an old man, looked depressed, some ladies at the background, then, OPening, cheh!! it's "Without a Trace")so, the whole show is about how/whether Dr.Chase made that mistake,
ie. he made a wrong diagnosis, causing a female patient dying. (Oh, who was actually supposed to be Dr.Foreman's patient)
then, more diagnoses were done and they decided that she needed a new liver.
Therefore, the younger brother the patient, gave her his liver,
another mistake... cos, like Dr.House always said, "People always lie!!"
apparently, the brother has a bad liver, due to drug abuse.

3 months later,
The lady was admitted to the hospital again, dying, again!!
Liver was not working fine, and she had a Hepatitis C.
Yes, then only they found out about the brother's bad liver.

OK, skip!
The end was,
the sister WAS dying,
the brother felt guilty, (in fact, he was rushing to packup him, and the sister, to go to some third world country, buy a liver from the black market there, and do the transplant over there)
Dr.Chase had finally willing to meet the patient,
came to tell her that, the process will be deadly as well,
no matter what, she WAS going to die and she wouldn't want to die in foreign land, leaving her daughters behind.
She got the message and calmly accepted the fate.
The younger brother, came crying to her, apologizing.
However, she only smiled at him, and said, that in fact she wanted to thank him for giving her another 3 months of life, to be with her daughters and that it was great!!

I am a very 'TV' person. However, I normally do not watch for entertainment, I watch to learn, learn about myself, and learn about human.
I normally don't tend to judge the roles in the show, not because it's just a show,
it's because I spend my time otherwise instead.
I try to capture the message in the story, (or inventing a message, to be received) and try to understand about human.
About how vulnerable human can be,
about how weak-minded human can be,
about how confused human can be,
about how lonely human can be,
but yet, a vulnerable man will be strong,
a weak-minded man can be tough,
a confused man can be confident,
a lonely man can be loud and cheeful...
to me, it's because of one thing,
then we can be optimistic, we can be selfless, because of one thing,
that very one single and simple thing,
yet so afraid to touch, so afraid to loose,
so far to reach, so difficult to achieve, and so tiring to maintain.