Never letting go

As I read through section two, I came across a longer quote that held a lot of meaning to me, as well as it did for Kathy.  "Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought.  Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and---no matter how much we despised ourselves for it---unable quite to let each other go"  (Ishiguro, 120).  I feel like I will have the same feeling towards many of my classmates in the coming month.  Right now, there are many of them that I'll be very glad to get away from.  But, in reality, they are part of who I am.  I will never be able to let the people go, the ends that I've spent the past four years of my life with.  Like Kathy, I think we all like to think that we'll be independent.  We like Ito think that we'll be able to shake off the people of our past once we move on to the next phase of our lives.  But, like Kathy realized in this quote, they will be a part of us forever; there is no letting them go.