I love how in episode one Meredith tells Derek "I'm not the girl in the bar anymore," and then as the show progresses the one thing it keeps coming back to is that she is the girl in the bar. She'll always be the girl in the bar. It doesn't matter how many seasons have passed and how much she's changed; a part of Meredith will always be the girl in the bar. Derek is a part of her, and a fundamental one at that. The moment they met is imprinted on her forever. A piece of her lives in that point of time. In fact, there's a piece of her that lives in all the moments she had with Derek. Parts of her are scattered through time, forever frozen with the love of her life. And time will go on and on, and those pieces will get farther away, but Meredith will never truly stop being the girl in the bar.










