Best of Week: Kite Runner

During class Friday, it was mentioned that Amir should have taken control of his situation instead of sitting around and waiting for someone to hand him a solution on a platter. That got me thinking, shouldn't we all do that? Get off our cushy chairs and go grab our fate by the hair and tell it we won't be ruled by it's decisions anymore? Or maybe we should just stop waiting around for something to happen to us, and live life like we were going to die tomorrow? Stop waiting and start doing. Not to aspire to perfection... but to do things how we think they should be done, even if they turn out wrong. But if we had just let life slip by and not done what we thought was right, but wasn't, wouldn't that be better? To not make mistakes? To be perfect? Can that qualify as perfection, the avoidance of taking a chance?
I don't think Amir would have gotten out of his safe existence of guilt and regret and moved onto apologies and forgiveness without a push (or a very large shove) in the right direction. Sometimes, I think we all need that extra push from fate or God or whatever moves this world. But we can't just wait around for that shove to come from a questionable aly, we have to find how to stumble our way through life without help, because freedom is taking a horrible situation and making it a tad more bearable. In history, its hard to say whether the times create the man or the man creates the time. I say both. The truly great person accepts what they have been given as their piece of clay, and take fate into their own hands. There is only a certain amount of clay, and if you push it to hard the art with break and the masterpiece will be ruined. But with that clay, and determination, you can make something beautiful.
Even if you aren't written in history books, if you have had a hand in your fate, you have truly been great. Taking your life into your own hands is difficult, Amir couldn't do it without a lot of time and help, but maybe someone else could. Waiting around for the times to be good won't work, you have to bend the times to your own ideas... but also have to ability to be flexible when the times change. A situation can be molded, a mistake is never the end.