Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

Humans are full of emotion, whether they care to admit it or not, they care. People can try to suppress all of their feelings and morals, but eventually it will get to them and they react. People aren’t meant to suppress what they carry, yet most do anyway. Some prefer not to say what they went through because there is always some possibility that someone has it worse, and people don’t want to seem weak. Similar to those mentioned in The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien, I am someone who carries mental weights. My heaviest weights would have to include my fear of the unknown, the fear of divorce/not finding real love, and wanting those who mean most to me to always be happy and having it be my responsibility to try and get them in a better place. …show more content…
I am afraid of what is not known. Not in the way as in if I were in school and I don't know the next subject we will learn. I am afraid of the future though, for that is widely unknown. To me, I fear that I will have no control on what happens in the future and I will be stuck living a horrible life. I fear I won't make the right decisions now, and regret my life later. What if I choose one major to go to into college, go through with it, and end up hating my career? I'm afraid that what decisions I end up making now, will cause me regret in the future. I have this mindset, where I understand that I choose how my future goes, but I'm fearful I will regret my choices later. Part of this fear includes the fact that there is no certainty to nearly anything. There is no certainty that I will love my job, get married, have a family, and live the “perfect life.” There's no certainty that I will necessarily live a bad life either. This fear takes over my brain every now and again, feeling the need to give me