The thing we know as ...

The first thing I noticed about him,
The one thing that I cannot seem to get out of my head,
The one thing I'm going to steal from him,
The one thing that'll forever remind me of him,
The thing we know as shoelace,
And it was RED :)

"And then I went right back to staring at his shoelaces like they held all the secrets of the universe and answered every question of mine."

Shawshank, Save Me!

When Andy Dufresne said "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies," I believed him and when Red said "I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope,"I wanted to cry.
I'm dangerously close to losing that hope right now and for once, Shawshank isn't helping :(