Kite Runner 5

“If this were one of the Hindi movies Hassan and I used to watch, this was the part where I’d run outside, my bare feet splashing rainwater. I’d chase the car, screaming for it to stop. I’d pull Hassan out of the backseat and tell him I was sorry, so sorry, my tears mixing with the rainwater. We’d hug in the downpour. But this was no Hindi movie. I was sorry, but I didn’t cry and I didn’t chase the car.”

This quote really struck me. In the movies, people do the right thing, try to save relationships, and open up about their feelings. In real life, it is harder to open up that way. The risk of getting hurt or denied by someone else seems to outweigh the benefits of expressing how we feel. We don’t always stand up for our friends, we don’t always try to keep loved ones from leaving, and we definitely don’t always let others know how much we feel for them. I wish we did, because there are a lot of relationships in this world which could have worked out had the two parties just sat down and worked things out. I am in some of these “relationships”, or lack thereof. Amir recognizes that he is about to lose someone that is key to his life, but he lets him go anyways.