Did you like the book The Things They Carried?

Sunday, June 27, 2010

mood chapters 2-4

Ok so these people are extremely boring. their lives are extremely mundane. They wake up, work for a few hours, have lunch, drink, meet a friend, drink, go to a café, drink, go to a club, drink, go home, drink, go to sleep. They are constantly moving from one place to another in an endless procession of social appointments, always drinking tons amounts of alcohol, seemingly never having conversations of any substance. I think this may be a point the author is trying to convey. These people, who seem to just be leading the life of most people of their time, are BORING just like everyone is. Its kind of funny to think about how boring our lives really are and how sometimes we created unnecessary problems and drama just so we can have something new to focus on. I've been thinking about this alot because this summer i started a new job working in my Dad's office and helping the secretary. and I'm not gunna lie it is soooo boring and the real secretary has worked there for over ten years. same stuff over and over for ten years just getting older and spending her life sitting in the same office. Further more I've noticed that this woman has an immense amount of "drama" to talk about. probably because she has nothing better to do! She reminds me of the main characters in this book.

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