The Things I Carry Means

I carry kindness. I’ve gotten my kindness from my sister, Rebecca. Kindness is a big part of me. I try to be kind even when I’m not feeling so great. If I’m feeling like Eeyore, I try to be kind to others around me.

Humans struggle their entire lives to find affection that satisfies them. We assign this affection to objects that we obtain throughout our lives. An engagement ring, for example, is a large meaning attached to a small object. While it still has quite a high expense, women care more about the man who it’s from than the store, well, hopefully. In Akiko Busch’s story The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, she explores the objects her two sons, and people in general, become attached to over time. There’s a certain box she brings up and says “Sometimes the little box had value, sometimes it had none, and its worth seemed to come and go, by pure chance” (1). She discusses why certain things are worth more than others and why certain things have more

The things I carry are determined by the weight of the world. I carry the oceans, the mountains, the valleys, and the deserts. I carry fear and courage, serenity and chaos, creation and destruction. I carry light and darkness, truth and lies, secrets and answers. But most of all, I carry love and hate.

Physically I don’t really carry a lot of things. The three things I honestly can’t live without are my headphones, my phone, and my promise ring. I always have my phone on me since I talk to a lot of my friends, and they rely on me for a lot. I always have my headphones on me so I can listen to music so I can shut the world out around me whenever I get stressed out. It’s nice to get lost in

Objects can prove to be the cause of some of the most impactful features or events in someone’s life. “Once he finished work on the Prospector and we struck it rich, he’d start work on our Glass Castle.” (Walls 25). The Prospector was a symbol of aspiration, she wanted to have a more exciting and fulfilling life. Although it also represents lies and distrustfulness because her father never actually worked on the Prospector. Instead, he went out and got drunk. The Glass Castle is quite impactful in Jeannette’s life, it gave her hope for a better life. However it’s not just that, it’s confidence in her father. That he will provide for her and create a good life for her, despite the drinking and other horrible habits he has developed. Jeannette

As humans, we carry around many tangible objects in our daily lives. Whether it is a bag filled with what is needed for the day or just our phone, we rely on certain things to navigate us through our days. There are also intangible things which are the traits that make us up, that we carry around with ourselves every day. Personally, I try to carry as little as possible when I go out. I will most likely grab my phone, keys, money, and chapstick and be out the door. In most cases, the difficulty of carrying the weight of our personal lives can seem to outweigh what we are physically carrying. As for abstract things that I carry, I have a lot going on. I am an extreme overthinker and find it almost impossible to stop myself from thinking, no

Like most my age, I am always equipped with a smart phone. Many would deem it necessary in this day and age. Some people get them as young as 10 years old. I only carry one per my parent's request. Not to say that I don’t enjoy the perks of having it with me: access to any answer for any question that might be asked, the capability to talk to my family and friends at any given moment throughout the day, and plenty of applications to screw around with if I find myself with extra time. It weighs almost nothing, so light that at any given moment I will panic because I worry I lost it. It holds a different kind of weight though. It is heavy in the moments that it is “lost”, when there is a fear that it is not with me,

Every person has on object in their life that is very precious to the, for me, it is my pearl necklace. They are small and round and a lustrous cream color with a pink sheen. They have a tiny gold clasp that holds the necklace together. My pearls tell a story than no other personal artifact can: my heritage. The pearls symbolized tradition and womanhood in my family’s life, and they were to be worn with dignity and pride. Every holiday, the girls of the family accessorized their outfits with the pearls given by our grandmother. They were something we all had in common: the thread that linked our generations together. I recall looking down at my Nana’s casket and I could almost hear her voice whispering

My second precious possession is my Nanny’s (grandmother) wedding ring. I would take her wedding ring with me because it is the only thing I have from her since she passed away two years ago. My nanny was one of the best people I knew and I miss her everyday, I wish there was a way to be able to see her again but there isn’t and that is really hard on me. Wearing this ring would remind me of her strength, faith, and humbleness that she portrayed during her battle with cancer, and it would be a constant reminder that no matter what happens to me I can get through it. This possession would be one of the hardest things for me to leave

My wallet has a picture of my family which, again allows me to be redirected in high spirits during the rigors of war. Furthermore, all my credit cards and personal information is stored in my wallet. I like debit cards and credit cards more because all the security protection that comes with a debit/credit card. My wedding ring never leaves my finger this piece of jewelry is most precious and sacred once I became a husband on the 7th November 2013.

Like in the book, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the thing I carry are “largely determined by necessity” (2). Just like in the book, there are very few things that I carry that just because I want to. Most things I carry are things I have to carry because of school or my life. I carry a lot of things with me in my everyday life that are both physical and emotional. Some of these things include my driver’s license, my stress because of school and from planning for college, and the memory of losing my grandpa Glenn.

Many people have things that mean a lot to them and would hurt if they were ever to lose that something. Well what I hold dear to me is just two pieces of paper. Yup, just paper. I know what you’re thinking how can paper mean so much to me. Well it isn't the paper itself that makes it so special it's what's on it. Those pieces of paper contain words and a drawing that my father did for me when he was in jail. He still is in fact in jail so that’s why it means so much.

With the Four items are important to me, volleyball, family photos, my art, and a blanket. Volleyball is important to me because I have been passionate about volleyball since I was in the first grade, I followed my older sister around when she went to games, they had me as their water girl. I was in love with volleyball from the first game I went to. As I grew older in life there was this blanket I carried around everywhere even to some of my volleyball games. In my family, each child got a blanket that was made by our grandparents that was given to us when we were born, it has been with me since day one and I still use it today as a through blanket. This blank has meant the world to me because the grandma that made it for me passed away a

Two items in my residence room that I value the most are my poster of Mike Tyson boxing and my framed picture of my Mom and I. Even though one of my items is simply a poster of someone I have never met, it carries a lot of significance. My father got me that poster of my favourite boxer. My father getting me that poster shows that he has finally accepted and is proud that I participate in boxing, which was something he was very hesitant of me doing at first because of the risk of injuries. Knowing my father supports me doing something I love means the world and as a result that is why I love that poster. The second item is more self-explanatory. The picture serves as a memory of my mother who helped get me to where I am at this point in my

4. What is your most important possession? Describe it and say why it is so important.