Same As It Ever Was
Wanted to get this off my chest. I hope it's not offensive to anyone. If it is, I apologize in advance. Hopefully we're all adults here, and can have civilized discussions if we disagree.
All I keep hearing today is how the events of September 11th, 2001, "changed everything". Everyone keeps saying that nothing will ever be the same. Well, I just don't feel it. It was a tragedy, certainly, but I've lived my life the same since that I did before. It affected my life in the sense that I now have to wait longer at the airport, and that I have to listen to politicians talk about 9/11 whenever I want to watch the news.
I do still remember some of that day. I remember I was in Physics class, taking a test. The teacher put the television on mute in the background, but still made us take the test. I remember I ended up with a C. At one point, I was in the middle of a problem when my best friend looked up at the television and asked "Weren't there two of them?" One of the towers had fallen, and no one had noticed.
Emotionally, my reaction basically consisted of relief that it hadn't happened to me or anyone I loved. It sounds incredibly selfish, but there wasn't shock or horror or anything like that. I knew this was going to happen. I think anyone who had been paying attention could have told you that. And despite all the "Never Again" signs I see, it will almost certainly happen again. I hope it doesn't happen to me, then, either.
I have always thought being a fireman was a noble profession, and still do. I still say that no one who wants to be a policeman should be allowed to be one. My condolences go out to everyone who died that day and their families, the same way they go out to everyone who dies an untimely death through no fault of their own, but it didn't change my worldview in any significant way.
I think we got lucky on 9/11. Not just that no planes crashed into the Capitol, or the White House, but that New York City wasn't erased from the planet by a nuclear cloud. I'm honestly surprised something like that hasn't happened yet. And I can't do anything about it, so I just continue to live my life.
9/11 didn't instill some new sense of patriotism in me. The fact that civilians in the country where I live were vicously attacked tells me that maybe I should probably move to a country where no one wants to attack its innocent civilians, nothing more. Out of self-preservation, I mean... I'm not trying to make a political statement.
Basically, I'm tired of hearing about 9/11. It was horrible. So is homelessness. Murder. Rape. Millions dying of hunger in Africa. Not to mention the fact that the climate is about to change in way that will probably kill hundreds of millions of people.
And yet all we're talking about is something that happened five years ago, something that we can't change. Not just today, but every day. If they want to attack us again, they're going to attack us again, it's as simple as that. I highly doubt we can do anything about it. I plan to be somewhere else when it happens. In the meantine, I'll continue to live my post-9/11 life exactly the same way that I lived my pre-9/11 life.
Again, I'm sorry to anyone that offends. I'm not feeling to happy right now in any case, since I didn't get the position I wanted at the radio station and will now have to get a real job that I really don't want.
All I keep hearing today is how the events of September 11th, 2001, "changed everything". Everyone keeps saying that nothing will ever be the same. Well, I just don't feel it. It was a tragedy, certainly, but I've lived my life the same since that I did before. It affected my life in the sense that I now have to wait longer at the airport, and that I have to listen to politicians talk about 9/11 whenever I want to watch the news.
I do still remember some of that day. I remember I was in Physics class, taking a test. The teacher put the television on mute in the background, but still made us take the test. I remember I ended up with a C. At one point, I was in the middle of a problem when my best friend looked up at the television and asked "Weren't there two of them?" One of the towers had fallen, and no one had noticed.
Emotionally, my reaction basically consisted of relief that it hadn't happened to me or anyone I loved. It sounds incredibly selfish, but there wasn't shock or horror or anything like that. I knew this was going to happen. I think anyone who had been paying attention could have told you that. And despite all the "Never Again" signs I see, it will almost certainly happen again. I hope it doesn't happen to me, then, either.
I have always thought being a fireman was a noble profession, and still do. I still say that no one who wants to be a policeman should be allowed to be one. My condolences go out to everyone who died that day and their families, the same way they go out to everyone who dies an untimely death through no fault of their own, but it didn't change my worldview in any significant way.
I think we got lucky on 9/11. Not just that no planes crashed into the Capitol, or the White House, but that New York City wasn't erased from the planet by a nuclear cloud. I'm honestly surprised something like that hasn't happened yet. And I can't do anything about it, so I just continue to live my life.
9/11 didn't instill some new sense of patriotism in me. The fact that civilians in the country where I live were vicously attacked tells me that maybe I should probably move to a country where no one wants to attack its innocent civilians, nothing more. Out of self-preservation, I mean... I'm not trying to make a political statement.
Basically, I'm tired of hearing about 9/11. It was horrible. So is homelessness. Murder. Rape. Millions dying of hunger in Africa. Not to mention the fact that the climate is about to change in way that will probably kill hundreds of millions of people.
And yet all we're talking about is something that happened five years ago, something that we can't change. Not just today, but every day. If they want to attack us again, they're going to attack us again, it's as simple as that. I highly doubt we can do anything about it. I plan to be somewhere else when it happens. In the meantine, I'll continue to live my post-9/11 life exactly the same way that I lived my pre-9/11 life.
Again, I'm sorry to anyone that offends. I'm not feeling to happy right now in any case, since I didn't get the position I wanted at the radio station and will now have to get a real job that I really don't want.