"Who's your doctor?"

"Who's your doctor?"
Response A- Blurts out family doctor.
Response B- "There's nothing wrong with me!"
Response C- Says the name of one of 12-14ish possibilities associated with Doctor Who.
Thanks, A.  See you soon, B, (with my clipboard and pen in hand…).  Helloooooooo, C!

Matt Smith's appearance as the Doctor was my entrance into the series.   I was hooked from fish fingers and custard.  If you would have asked me who my Doctor was, my response would have been clear.  Smith.  As the 50th anniversary loomed, I binge-watched from the first episode of the new series.  Christopher Eccleston became MY Doctor.  My heart broke for him.  Then, David Tennant was on the scene.  Wait- HE'S my Doctor.   (Come on- he did that horrible thing to his people because he HAD to and then had to pretty much do it AGAIN when You Know Who came back.)  But, then, I watched some of Matt Smith's finest hours again.  (His goodbye to the redhead?  Well, to both redheads…)

I cannot commit to just one Doctor.  The beauty of the show is you can watch the series in order and appreciate all of the inside jokes/continuous storylines OR you can watch it out of order- the episodes stand on their own as do the players.

That got me thinking.  If I do not have to view my Doctors in any order, how about my past?  I don't have a TARDIS (to travel back and forth in time and space for my non Whovians).  But I have an excellent memory.  Do I have to remember events in a specific sequence or can I watch the highlights?  If someone Hurt me in the past, does that negate all of the good memories?

How does changing the order in which we view things impact our perception of them?  And of ourselves?  Instead of worrying about glasses being half full or empty or being Rose colored, perhaps we should wear rear view mirrored monoculars so we don't forget.  I often hear people say we should look at the big picture.  If I've learned anything from watching Doctor Who it's that some timey-wimey stuff definitely impacts the bigger picture and it deserves a closer look.  (And...bow ties ARE cool.)