"Carry a lot of baggage” nghĩa là gì?

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Doesn’t it feel like we all carry a lot of baggage in life? If we could just forget about all the negatives, we could live on cloud nine. What if I told you that we would be permanently (vĩnh viễn) stuck (mắc kẹt) on ground level, going nowhere in life, without all the heavy baggage of our experiences? This is what living with SMA type 1 for 38 years has taught me.

It wants to cheer and encourage those born with physical defects (khuyết tật). Ma Rainey has a nephew who has the same problem as Colin Firth's character in The King's Speech. These characters carry a lot of baggage. They've had enough of people mistreating (ngược đãi) them, and they don't intend to dance to the tunes of the white man. They live life on their terms, even if it means making minor compromises (thõa hiệp) here and there. 

Late that afternoon, Ford called and asked if he could come see Reagan. He had decided it was time to press the Kissinger issue. "Ron, I'm making a sacrifice (sự hi sinh) here,"  he said when he arrived. "And now I'm asking you to make a sacrifice. I want you to appoint Henry Kissinger as secretary of state." Reagan  was blunt  and,  he later  told aides,  annoyed. This  was going beyond the bounds  of what he had expected. "Jerry, I know all of Kissinger's strong  points,"  Reagan  told Ford. "I would use him a lot, but not as secretary of state. I've been all over this country the last several years, and Kissinger carries a lot of baggage. I couldn't  accept that. My own people, in fact, wouldn't accept it."

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