Uplifting Thoughts

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

Some of the physical things I always carry is my phone, chapstick, lotion, my wallet, my license, and my money. A lot of these things sound like they have no

In the story The Things They Carry by Tim O’Brien, you will notice that the author uses things that can be carried as a metaphor for the things that we all carry, even the things we can’t let go. Tim O’Brien uses a lot of different ways to show how hard it is to carry your emotions when you are in a combat situation, but the main way you see it illustrated is through the events that have happened to First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross squad while out on a march. You also will see that each solider must change just so they can survive which means they will end up holding on to a lot of grief, because they will bury it inside themselves.

Human beings carry many different things with them, both physical and metaphorical. In Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” he presents an exploration of the many burdens that people can carry. Throughout the story, he presents many detailed descriptions of the equipment and tangible things that the characters carry with them to help them survive their ordeal physically. O’Brien also describes the various ‘things’ that the men carry both physically and emotionally to help them deal with the mental and emotional stress of war. O’Brien also details the additional ‘things’ that the men pick up over the course of their experiences, both physical and mental/emotional. Through the metaphor of carrying objects, the descriptions of the items and

The things I carry are both figurative and literal. I carry a pen, a pencil, a textbook or two, and paper. I carry memories, experiences, pain, guilt, cowardice, love and happiness. In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien centralizes on why people carry what they do, physical or not. To be honest, I carry what I do because I must. If I don’t carry that one textbook that one day, I’ll regret it. If I forget what it was like have my first icecream cone, what if felt like the instant my mouth froze up and the inside of my head pounded so loudly I almost screamed, I will be less of who I am today. What I carry defines me. In the novel, the tangible and intangible loads the soldiers carry define them; such as Lt. Cross's who carry’s a picture of and intangible feelings for Martha. What the soldiers burdened themselves with was largely determined, emotionally or physically, was by necessity.

People carry things with them all the time on a daily basis. They might be physical, emotional or spiritual things. Some people could carry a traumatic past while others simply carry a bag of groceries into their house. The things one carries defines them as a person and brings out their qualities as well as their defects. Some people might think of those things as burdens while others see them as a way out of reality or as something to push them forward, something to believe in.

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.

I carry the basic necessities, my brown wallet, with identification to remind myself I am anything but human. I carry a pack of twenty white sticks that I call companions, as they’ve been there when others weren't. I carry a phone with no intention of contact with the outside world, only to be left to see notifications of irrational facebook games. I carry a slender body with toothpicks as arms that can’t sustain the weight of what I carry and often break off in an emotional uproar, attaching them is harder than it seems it takes the dreams and goals in life I carry to sew these tiny antennas pointed to the heavens back in sync. I carry excessive amount of hair atop my head that defines my outer

Do a mental inventory of your life; what items do you have that you know you could get rid of? What do you think you absolutely couldn’t live without? There are thing that people can’t live without this could be because of a job or the item has an important memory attached with it. My computer is an example of a item I can't live without because I want to be a computer programmer I have to use my computer to practice coding. Another example would be my xbox because of the memories of me and my dad playing videogames together.

One of the things that I carry with myself is my deck of Kansas University playing cards. The cards remind me of good memories with my brother. Some of the cards are bent, others are beat up in other ways. I remember every little nick and mark on the cards. The cards are a little bit of physical and emotional baggage that i carry with myself everyday.

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Today I reflected on my life and my ambitions and dreams. I also reflected on how I came to be where I am in my life. I can honestly say I like my job and the direction my life is going, finally. I have a wonderful wife that I know is the reason I am where I am today. I can take no credit for my job or even the education I am getting because she encouraged me to go back to school and continue my education or I would not have. These thoughts make me feel emancipated when I admit them because it is often hard for me to admit that my wife is the one who made me what I am and not myself. The decisions I made in my youth I know are a product of my own bad judgment and I cannot place that blame on anyone but myself. My children are grown, and we are not close in our relationship. I can only blame myself for my selfish attitude when they were young. I blame myself not only for not always being accessible to my children but because I chose to put my career as a detective before my children. This was no one else’s decision but my own and I have paid for these choices in many ways over the span of my life.