Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

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Every Human in the world has their own life figure it out in their minds, mostly everyone someday, or another will find something that they truly love and will do everything to satisfy that love no matter what the situation is, even though, sometimes it can result in your death, by pursuing the love or dream that you have, you might sometimes face many obstacles and difficulties, but it will all depend on the love that you have to continue believing in yourself until you achieve that goal or dream. As every human in the world, we all are very different in many ways, we all follow different dreams, and we love different things. Many people love drugs so much that can even let their satisfaction to drugs kill themselves. Some fall in love with a girl, some live for their families. We all …show more content…
We all going to carry with us what we think is more important no matter the circumstances, "what we carried varied by our mission"(O" Brien 232) if we have in mind that whatsoever object or thought is very important we are going to carry it with us until the last day of our life. As humans, first of all, we are going to care about important resources like water, food, and health, those are the things that we care the most because they are the fundamentals of living. Then we are going to care about the things that we believe are very important, but we can actually live without them like, religion, it is very important for many people that they even die following it or by the love of the religion, but in reality we can live without religion and we could be just fine. Relationships play a very important role in life because they motivate you to enjoy life, especially if you have someone to care about. Addictions to drugs are a very strong component of life because no matter what you do, you can't stop, everyone can be addicted to a drug and without help, it can take your life away from

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