The things they carried

"The things they carried were largely determined by necessity...can openers, pocket knives, heat tabs, wrist watches, dog tags, kool aid, lighters...together these items wieghted between fifteen and twenty pounds." The soliders carried gum with them, of course gum doesn't weigh that much, in fact it doesn't weigh that much at all. But then you have the salt tablets which doesn't wiegh that much either. But you put alot of these items in a bag, and of course by itself they dont weigh alot but together little by little the weights add on, soon after a soliders are carrying up to fifteen to twenty pounds.

This story is like a representation of a person who has alot of baggages. We go through life and maybe someone hurts us so we hold onto this resentment. Then something happens to us and we feel ashamed, we feel anger, we feel alone. All of these feelings are things that we carry with us through the journey of life yet we don't realize how much they weigh. We may not even realize that we carry the resentment or the anger, or the loneliness, it doesn't really show itself in our daily life. But years after years we feel heavy, we feel like we're carrying the world on our shoulders and we can't even stand to carry our own head. We get angrier at the fact that we feel so heavy but you can't just throw those things out. We've been carrying them for so long, we don't even know we've been carrying that same anger on our back. We think we have forgotten that person for something they've done to us yet when they do something new that is hurtful to us we coil back all of those times they hurt us. We haven't really forgiven anyone. The truth of the matter is we just moved on, we pushed those feels aside not really dealing with them. But what we really did is put it in our bag and carried it with us till we have the opportunity to pull it back out to use against that person who hurt us. Don't let the sun go down on your anger, everyday throw your junk away so you can carry the important things in your life with you like love and memories.