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I am a 9-11 survivor.
I don't watch videos or documentaries about 9-11. I very rarely look at pictures about it, unless they give me a sense of comfort. A nice sunrise or sunset between the Twin Towers will always do the trick. I have lived 19 years with my own videos and stills
I don't watch videos or documentaries about 9-11. I very rarely look at pictures about it, unless they give me a sense of comfort. A nice sunrise or sunset between the Twin Towers will always do the trick. I have lived 19 years with my own videos and stills
burned in my mind. Not a day goes by with out a moment or two where I relive bits of that day. I have found photos that come the closest, to what I lived through and remember on a daily basis. Hopefully giving others an understanding of the events from as close to my personal
perspective as possible. The images are as close to what I saw, and what I see in me every day. This was not easy, and I did this for a reason.
As survivors we are to love and remind people to be human. To recognize and appreciate the things we see right in everyday life.
As survivors we are to love and remind people to be human. To recognize and appreciate the things we see right in everyday life.
To let those know your appreciation of they’re being extraordinary, seeing their love and passion for being human. Sharing and celebrating a joy created by simply being human to one another. That's what it's all about, and it doesn't get any better or easier than that.
That human connection was never stronger in the world, than that day and weeks following that awful day. Helping each other to safety, providing comfort and help to those you came across on your way out. Cheering on first responders,
people giving up their seats on the train for those in more need of the seat than them, stopping at one of the hundreds of funerals I would see, paying respects with total strangers who also happened to be walking by, wishing each other well as you part ways,
hearing and repeating, "we are New Yorkers, I got your back". People coming together for candlelight vigils, going to be with other humans, to grieve, and heal, all with the powers of being human to one another, together.
After a time, most of those forgot, and went back to normal every day New York life, almost as if it never happened. Allowing fear, anger and rage to push away that human connection that heals and empowers us to get better at being human, and sharing that human bond with anybody
you come across. Hate and anger used to divide us from that powerful connection, keeping us from getting better as a human world.
What we survivors don't forget are the people who helped others to safety and sacrificed themselves, the people helping each other who didn't make it
What we survivors don't forget are the people who helped others to safety and sacrificed themselves, the people helping each other who didn't make it
and the people helping each other and surviving together, and the families of them all. What we don't forget is people coming together in the face of death, confusion and fear, treating each other like breathing, thinking, intelligent human beings, trying to save one another
despite race, color, or job title. If we could treat each other on a daily basis with a fraction of that humanity, remembering and not forgetting will make the world a better place. Then we evolve as a human race, and isn't that worth remembering and not forgetting??
Those people who sacrificed their life to help save others, going above and beyond their duty of trying to make the world a better place. If we can take anything out of, or make sense of that day events, it is the human actions, the selflessness, the sacrifice, and the bravery
that took place. That is humanity, not spoof mattress commercials, and Twin Tower costumes with Barbie dolls hanging from them as victims jumping to their death. Most of you have forgotten. MOST OF YOU NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT WAS YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN ANYWAY.
So I ask of you my friends and fellow humans, not to remember and not forgetting for one day, but be a better human, evolve and remember the power of human connection every waking moment of your life, so we can make the world a better place and evolve as a species.
That is what remembering means, and that is Never Forgetting.
Those of you who have been there for me, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Thank you for your love, patience and understanding. You have all been a very significant part in me be coming a better human, and striving to get better,
Those of you who have been there for me, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Thank you for your love, patience and understanding. You have all been a very significant part in me be coming a better human, and striving to get better,
and help who ever I can along the way, while also learning to accept my own help. Thank You for the reminder that is in me. Yes there are times when I may need some help, I understand, I need to accept it. Thank you for your love and friendship.
I can honestly say you’re the best badass humans I have met yet. I hold you in very high regard in your ways of making yourself and others better. Thank you for all you have done for me.
And to everybody else WE ARE HUMANS, I GOT YOUR BACKS.
In Honor and Remembrance,
And to everybody else WE ARE HUMANS, I GOT YOUR BACKS.
In Honor and Remembrance,
