This past week we had to read "The Things They Carried" and to be completely honest I only read the words at face value. I didn't really read deeper into the text to really figure out what the story was about. I mean, I got the fact that they listed the weight of all the gear the men carried to show just how much physical weight a soldier carries everyday. I also understood the idea of an emotional weight on each soldier as well.
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That was the face value reading that I did but just last night the idea of an emotional weight really struck home with me when I was talking to a friend and they broke down because of the various stressful things that were going on in his life. While talking to him I realized that every single person on this planet has one or more things going on in their life which they have to "carry" with them everyday. Whether it be something happy or sad, a memory, a longing, everyone has something that no one else may know about. And I realized that wahtever the situation may be there needs to be people in each persons life that will be there to help share the weight of whatever their friend is having to "carry" just to make it a little bit easier on them.
I'm not really sure whether or not this would be considered a "good" blog post but it was just a thought that I could not get out of my mind since it happened so I figured "eh it kinda coincides with something we read, maybe I'll just talk it out". So there it is.
Hey Cory! I really like your blog for this week and I would consider it very "good." I looked at the face value of the title and story when I read it first and that is really all I thought about until reading your post. I can completely agree that everyone has something about them that no one may know, and that something is constantly with that person day in and day out. Very interesting comparison you made.
ReplyDeleteHi Cory,
ReplyDeleteFirst off I thought it was interesting that you decided blog about "the things they carried". I also felt the part where you stated "While talking to him I realized that every single person on this planet has one or more things going on in their life which they have to "carry" with them everyday". I had never thought of it like that, but now I see that everyone is carrying something.