Goodnight 9.11.2011. A decade on, and I still remember where I was, what I was feeling and how it was a really important time for me. I didn’t follow through on the resolutions that I made that day, for a few years. But when I did, 9.11 was a date that stayed in my mind, for lots of reasons, not least because of the resolutions I’d made in my mind on that day, to make the most of every opportunity that came my way, to stop beating myself up for decisions I’d already made where things hadn’t worked out and to know that somehow, at some point, I was going to become single again. And I’d assumed that it would be for good. And that life was/is too short to not make the most of it.
I don’t want to sound overly self absorbed about it. Please don’t be offended that I’m not writing about families who have lost loved ones as a result of anything 9.11 related. I’ve lit my candles. I’ve said my prayers for families who have been affected. And I’ve thanked him upstairs that the awful things that happened have gone on to bring people together, to help them make life changing decisions and in time, to move on to make the most of their lives.
I look forward to going back to NY at some point, to ground zero, to see how NY is moving on, commemorating the lives of those we’ve lost and making the best of the sadness that day brought us. And that in itself will be me ticking something off on my own list, of making the most of my life. It all comes full circle.
What events have shaped your thoughts? Your outlook? Your approach to life?
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