What is it...?

[lithera]

It's a white hole...

No, actually, it isn't. It's me wondering if any of the e-mail I send out actually gets to anyone at all. I was thinking that it was just Brian that doesn't seem to get any of my messages, but no, it's more than just him.

A few thoughts for today: I know that there was always some par tof me that was afraid the city wouldn't be here until I saw it. Coming back after almost any trip, I would always be happy to see the skyline. In the past two years that has magnified and receded but it will always be a greater thought than it was.

People have the right to mourn. A country doesn't get over this sort of thing quickly. I'm sad that it has been used to do some things I don't think were the right decisions to make but still, I know I've been effected. Challenger still gets me. JFK's assasination still gets my parents. Pearl Harbor still bothers those who remember it... These things don't just go away. And they shouldn't. Forgetting about things, about history, is what causes it to be repeated.

I just wish it didn't seem like we're making things worse instead of better.

Now that we're in Iraq and Afghanistan we can't just leave. If we do that things will be worse than if we had never gone in the first place. We seem to be doing a half hearted job in Afghanistan and Iraq has become a quagmire and a great target. I don't know the answers and as good as blaming people can feel, it doesn't fix anything.

I have more thoughts on this but I've noticed, the more and more I think them, the more and more depressing it is. If I come up with anything else, though, I'll put it up here.

Comments

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

"People have the right to mourn. A country doesn't get over this sort of thing quickly"

Addressed to me there? I think my post is part of a bigger issue that I'm trying to hash out on another forum, trying to figure out why some things affect us tremendously and others don't seem to bother us at all.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Not addressed to you. Addressed to the air for all it matters. I've been thinking about this for a little bit now. There seem to be two camps of people - those who are quick to brush it all aside and those who are trying to milk it for something. (Yes, there are plenty of people who aren't either but those two camps seem to draw attention to themselves.) I don't think either is right. Everyone needs to take mourning at their own speed - for anything.

9/11

[bayushiboy.livejournal.com]

I hear you on this one. I lost an old work colleague on 9/11 and being from New York and working at the World Trade Center, it had a huge effect on me personally. I get sick to my stomach remembering this day. And on the 2 year anniversary of it, I have to force myself NOT to think about it because I don't know if I'm ready to wrap my head around it and deal with it. I don't know if I'll ever be ready. Does this mean that I/people don't care, of course not, like you said, it's hard to mourn. I think I will focus on random acts of kindness instead.
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