The Fourth Episode :)

The episode begins with the grown up father Ted. He is telling his children about the time when he met their mother, however it never results to be their actual mother but instead another girlfriend of his father’s past relationships. The episode begins with Ted coming into the usual bar to meet his friends with an unusual collar shirt. Barney, Robin, Marshall, and Lily all notice it and approve of Ted’s dress choice. Ted then expresses the shirts history which signifies Ted changing his style and changing his perspective. With this realization in mind Ted decides to call one of his old girlfriends of three years ago named Natalie, thinking he might have a different perspective with Natalie three years later. However soon realizes he had broken up with Natalie over the phone and on her birthday three years ago, so he decides to call her up and make up for it.

After Ted apologizes and begs for Natalie’s forgiveness, he asks her out on a date, and they begin dating again. Robin is given the chance to broadcast a News channel on a channel most people do not watch. Barney proposes a proposition to Robin tell her to say inappropriate things during her live interviews for money. In the first proposition, Robin acted out of a natural response, but was still able to get Barney’s money. The next few times Robin decided to do whatever Barney had proposed to her during the show. However there came an episode where Barney gathered everyone in the Bar to watch the Robin’s interview, and Robin accidentally fell on horse crap on live TV. This then served Robin as a lesson to do her job to the best of her ability and to enjoy the great privilege and honor she obtains as a News Host.

Something I learned from this lesson is you don’t really know what you have until you lose it. We might find ourselves in places where we don’t feel comfortable or where we don’t feel appreciated, but in God’s eyes nothing goes in vain.

Back to Ted, after a few weeks dating Natalie, he decides that she was not the one and wanted to break up with her. What Ted did not know was Natalie’s birthday was coming soon, how soon? The day he wanted to break up with her. So Ted took Natalie out to dinner and had the intentions of breaking up with her that night. However, what he didn’t know is that Natalie had been taking Krav Maga, which is fighting technics from guerrilla warfare, so after breaking to bad news to Natalie, Ted received a dramatic beating.  

So it turned out Natalie was not the one, and just because a person has different changes in styles and in perspectives does not mean the past should be relived again. New opportunities and new situations arise and making the most out of every situation is wise.