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So I just wanted to ask others on here how they feel about 9/11, what happened, and what they think about it now.

I might just be the insensitive jerk on the subject, but I think it's time to move on. I'll explain. When it first happened I was in the 5th grade. I was in a catholic school at the time, and no one told us anything until we were about to leave for the day. All they said was something big happened and to ask our family when we got home. I didn't get what the big deal was then, but I watched and listened. I felt bad for all of the people that were hurt, killed, or lost someone.

My dad died 8 years ago from heart failure. I was 13. I found him dead on the floor when I got home with my mom. It was tragic for me because he was stolen from me without the oppertunity to say goodbye. I moved on. Yeah I miss my dad, but I don't get sappy and start crying and screaming everywhere.

A part of me thinks if I'm not flipping out because of my dad, then why are most people still doing it about 9/11? Like I said, I might just be weird because I'm over it and it annoys me, but that's why I'm asking others for their opinions on the subject.

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I still get very upset when I see documentaries on 9/11 so I avoid watching them now. I remember watching CNN that day and seeing the second plane hit and thinking that it was no accident and staying awake all night to watch the rescue efforts on t.v.. And I remember talking to my cousin and telling her how grateful we were that we went to NYC and visited the World Trade Center the year before and how that could have been us. I can't imagine what those passengers were thinking and feeling, sitting on the planes with the people who were about to murder them. And I can't imagine what thoughts were running through the minds of the people who decided to jump from the Towers. I think your feelings are normal but I think there are some who have had difficulty moving on with their lives.

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I guess if I were to sum up my feelings on it... I feel like it is a memory of abuse (our nation was abused in a sense). Reliving it over and over again is not healthy and and can create unnecessary depression, however, going over the facts... learning from them objectively so we don't have another tragedy like that again is worth while. I say this not knowing anyone personally who was there (well my cousin was working at the towers but he was sent on an errand from his boss at the time)...

It is important to think about

What were the elements/mistakes that caused this?

What should we have done differently in handling it?

How can we turn the tragedy into a learning experience?

How can we honor those lost in the tragedy?

NOT

We should all feel bad again and again about what happened.

We should start trying to blame people all over again.

etc...

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it's still my lil' sis' birthday, first and foremost.

Yeap, it's my grandpa and great uncle's birthday as well, but my grandpa died the April before 9/11 so he's unaware that his birthday thunder had been stolen :laugh:.

I actually am one of the few young people that thinks of 9/11 on a fairly regular basis. It will most likely always stay with me.

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Yeap, it's my grandpa and great uncle's birthday as well, but my grandpa died the April before 9/11 so he's unaware that his birthday thunder had been stolen :laugh:.

the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami happened on my dad's b-day and the Japanese earthquake earlier this year missed my b-day by one day.

when the extinction-level asteroid impact happens, it'll be on some family member's b-day, no doubt.

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I think 9/11 isn't going to go away because its a massive form of trauma, but like with any form of trauma, people will eventually have to recognize its in the past.

I had a friend who died from a freak accident this Summer, at 24. I still think about it and will never forget him; but at the same time, I've learned not have my life consumed by things that are out of my control.

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It makes me want to kill people with conspiracy theories...

If alot of people die for whatever reason and people feel like they must mourn or remember for whatever reason...shut your fucking mouth!

Remember it how you will...but around funerals, death, or memorials you need to watch your shit because anything that goes against the flow is about as bad as those Baptist idiots...

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I think that there is a significant reason why 9/11 is distinct from the unexpected death of a loved one taken by natural causes. It's this: these people died because of hatred. It was a purposeful act of violence perpetrated against innocents who could have been anyone. It wasn't vengeance, even. Just hate. Your dad's passing was sad. The murder of thousands of people is tragic. The first may have been inevitable, but the second was not.

Lastly, though you may have made your peace with your dad's passing, I somehow don't think you're really over it. You might not break down and cry, but I imagine you sometimes feel a twinge of loss, even if you push it away because you have to go on with your living.

I'm not saying that all the ways of dealing with the losses of 9/11 are healthy, but they're all, insofar as they do not serve the cause of hatred, legitimate. Everyone deals with grief their own way.

For me, I think especially because 9/11 happened on my daughter's fourth birthday and I was four when a totally crazy lady broke into my house and stabbed me in the face and abdomen with scissors (true story), it has served as a reminder to me of the fact that the world is sometimes a very hostile place full of injustice, but love is the only thing that makes it tolerable and worthwhile, and that this life can be ended at any moment, so I had better live and love for today.

So, hugs to you all!

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The media will never let it rest... It is a way for them to make people freak out & think that something is gonna happen on that day again. That being the case... The peoples will never stop making a deal over it.

Personally.... I don't let it affect me too much. Yes, I do feel for the families of those who died {both American and otherwise}.. & I also think it was a terrible tragedy, and a scar on our country..... BUT, It's not something I let frighten me into hiding in my house on 9/11 every year.

You have to let people deal with it in their own way.. Death and tragedy effects us all in different ways. So no, you are not an insensitive jerk, you just deal with death in your own way.

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I think there's a fine line between remembering the past, and dwelling on it, and some people don't know where to draw the line, especially when it comes to things like 9/11. 10 years later, yes, dwelling is not healthy.

I suspect part of why you don't feel strongly about it is because of the age you were at the time and the fact that your school basically kept you in the dark about it. But everyone reacts to things their own way. I was 21 and in college when it happened, and I was in my car driving to school when the planes hit the towers and was listening to it all unfold on the radio. I got to school just as the morning classes were letting out, and they had pushed TVs with the news out into the hall, so the students getting out of the am class were just finding out about it, and everyone was just dead stopped everywhere in the hallway staring at the TV. That's a moment I'll never forget because it was one of those moments where you feel like you're watching history unfold. My morning class was canceled, and I went into the student union to watch the TVs they had set up, and I remember watching the first tower fall. It was all very haunting, and those are images I always think about on 9/11.

But I don't let it consume my entire day, either. It doesn't do to live in the past.

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I feel heartless for saying this, but I honestly don't care.

Osama hated us because we left our weapons over there after the cold war and it killed many of our people, so naturally he was pissed, then he used intelligence and power to influence his people, as well as restoring hospitals and such. So it was our fault because we left our crap over there.

people over react over a reaction.

All I imagine when I see something about 9/11 is this picture of the twin towers with smoke billowing out of the holes and a picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi in front of it saying, "These blast points...Too accurate for sand people."

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