Today, I woke up at my best friends house. I've been traveling doing nonprofit work and all sorts of work. But on this day, I could not help to notice that its always the same pattern. Remembering what I was doing, what I was thinking when I found out the tragedy that happened in NYC.
The only people on my mind that day were my friends Monica and Frank. You see, I was supposed to have joined the military, the Marines upon high school graduation. The only thing was that my mother found out through the recruiter calling my home and told him to stop looking for me.
I was not in a training camp but I was rather at home, in my sisters bed watching live coverage on CNN on the airplane crashes in the twin towers. I will never forget the image. I made lots of calls to try to track both of my friends down and to find out they were okay and in the states. Immediately, I thought of war and everything else that would follow. I was right, we did go to war and a long war it was.
2001 seems so far away but it feels as though it was just yesterday. Time is all we have these days and at any moment it can change. I am grateful that I try to live each day and recalling days like these when innocent lives were taken only reminds me that I am blessed. I have to try to do good in this world because that's all we have, that is all we can give it.
My prayers to the innocent souls lost and those who stood in harms way for others to live.
Peace and Love. MDL
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