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I Don’t Want You to Know Me
The way you want to know me
“It’s amazing that relationships can form and last under the constraints of never fully knowing. Never knowing for sure what the other person is thinking. Never knowing for sure who a person is.”
―Iain Reid
Would you run across the street to help people jump out of a burning building, risking your own life whilst the flames engulf nearly everything around you? I was asleep in the safety of my apartment when this happened, but my neighbor was awake and ran to help strangers safely escape. Had I been awake, I can’t say for certain what I’d have done; I can only say what I think I’d have done.
If a boat tipped over, casting all its crew into the depth of the waters, without a single boat nor land in sight, would you hold the man who can’t swim and also weighs hundreds of pounds (probably 400, to be precise)? My father did just that, for a good half hour, depleting his own energy while holding up his family, also ensuring the safety of everyone surrounding him. He didn’t even complain once that he could hardly stay afloat himself. Had my father not been there to save him, would I have held that man? Hard to say for sure.
If there was a baby in a car, trapped and crying, maybe even screaming, left for dead — literally — in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, would you keep walking…
