I remember...

**toi tyme** · 09-10-2009, 08:30 PM

Its long.. so beware..

A day like today is not easy for many people in this world. Mostly the United States because September 11th, 2001 was not a typical day for the average American. Just like every morning on a week day families get ready for the day full of events. Work, school, taking the kids to school and throwing a pop tart in the toaster, barely burning it but eating it anyways because you don't know when you will have time to catch a lunch break at work. Kids wait for the bus to arrive in down town Manhattan wave bye to their parents (and those were the lucky ones) running on the bus to start their days. Public transportation, people of all kinds, shapes and colors all travel together every morning, whether it be a taxi, subway, bus or even their own car all race to their final destination. Soon enough they hit the office, grab some coffee, sort all their papers together, take a seat and get ready to begin their current occupation when tragedy strikes. No, this was not a typical day. The worry of if, "i gotta get home before traffic gets too bad to take the kids to soccer practice" is totally out the window; literally unfortunately. The average American in downtown Manhattan becomes someone else today. They become heroes, they become courageous, they be come frightened, scared, horrified, and grateful. They know what they have to do. They know their only choices. They try to reach home, they try to say goodbye, they try to help other people of whom they never met to survive.

No, this day was not like any other. This day is not a typical day. This day is a day to remember. A day to appreciate. A day to pray, and a day to give. So many people lost so many important aspects of their life's. So many people gained knowledge of appreciation and thankfulness for what they have, what they had, and what they have to remember.

This world is so big. This world is filled with so many problems. So many things are left unnoticed and underappreciated. "My car isn't fast enough, I don't like my clothes anymore, my house isn't big enough, my mother is mean to me, my sister is picking on me" - These things are UNNOTICED. At least your sister is alive! At least you have clothes! At least you have a car! At least you have a mother who loves you and is alive and around! At least you have a home, and a bed and food and a family! Many people in this world grow up and live without all of those things. But that doesn't matter. Not to most people. Because apparently this world revolves for you and your needs and your desires when this world is left with so many people who have nothing and are thankful for the nothing that they have.. But the more people have the less thankful they are for them. But this is not the point just a tangent from the purpose of this post.

9/11 was a loss to so many individuals of this country. So many mothers never made it home, so many fathers will never see their children again; but all of us are more concerned that our shoes don't match our haircut.

Three hundred and forty three firefighters (including those who VOLUNTEERED) lost their life that day. To protect the public. Nobody can be protected from everything, but you can be protected from something. You can be protected by greediness, and hatred. You can be protected from selfishness and inappreciativeness.

Be thankful you have a car to get to work. Be thankful you don't have to worry about the chain of your bike breaking and you're stuck in the middle of some city nowhere near where you need to be. Be thankful you even have a bike to get to work and don't have to walk regardless of the weather. Time stops for no one.

Open the door for the person who is walking behind you. Let the guy behind you order his starbucks first if you're not in a rush. Go through your closest for all the clothes that you haven't seen for who knows how long and give it away. Buy canned food to give to the county food bank. Give, give, give. Not take. People take too much these days. They take what's in front of them, they take advantage, they take what's not theirs, they take what they want to help them and possibly hurt someone else. Open your eyes. Look at the person besides you. Ask them how their day is going. Don't complain about the small things. Be happy for the small things. Be grateful for the small things. Pray for your country. Pray for the family's who had to change their life and miss someone special and loved from the tragedy of 9/11.

Be who you wish you were. Be the better person. Be what this world needs to make peace and happiness. Be the person who is thankful. Be the better you. A smile is contagious and tragedies are never forgotten but the remind us of how we can all be better people and give.

Nobody is perfect out there but what is so wrong and trying. Of course people make mistakes, of course people only think of themselves sometime. We are only human and I am guilty of all the negative things that I mentioned in this note. But I am also guilty of change and becoming a better person. I am thankful and grateful. I ask random people how they are. I ask what I can do to help. I offer to help some other person’s day go better without benefiting my own. I love my family. I am thankful they are around. I am thankful for my neighbors who have their family. I am thankful for so many people I don't even know for having what they have. For living, for beating, for believing and helping.

Remember those of 9/11. Those people will always be the better side of themselves. Those people know what they have, and what they lost. Those people are heroes; even the ones that weren't in the buildings. The people at home whose families were in the buildings. They are all heroes and I doubt any of them worry about the shirt they are wearing that doesn't match their socks.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for being alive. You can do so much. You have so much to offer. You have so much to accomplish and make the better of. Just one person can do so much and if this reached anyone I did my part.

Thank you so much.

-toi tyme (KL)

Cliff notes: get the hell over your problems because they arent that significant and see others for what they do in our society that is a positive thing.

**devildogws6** · 09-10-2009, 08:48 PM

DEEP

**TempleU_WS6** · 09-10-2009, 08:50 PM

tl;dr

**86 IROC-Z** · 09-10-2009, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by TempleU_WS6

tl;dr

lul

**wheeliE-maxx** · 09-10-2009, 09:11 PM

People forgot 9/11 already. The president is giving us school chillins a speech on why you should support him today. Furniture stores have sales starting today for some reason like the date has no signifigance.

**cheap80z28** · 09-10-2009, 10:22 PM

I'll remember that day for 2 reasons, the one you're talking about and the first court date of my divorce. As soon as we got into the court room, the sherrif chased us all out of the building. I then knew I was in for a messy, long divorce.

**Huskerz1** · 09-10-2009, 11:33 PM

Wow, and a brain to match...I totally dug what you wrote.

**basballny2** · 09-11-2009, 01:48 AM

RIP cousin Dominic, 8 years ago this all happened and people have already lost site of what took place. After 9/11 in New York people did change, EVERYONE was concerned about the next person but people forget with time and dont like to be reminded of what took place. I wish more people could read this and realize there lifes arent that fucked up.

**FasstChevys** · 09-11-2009, 03:48 AM

Greatest LS1.com post I can remember

R.I.P. for everyone involved in 9/11 - my prayers go out to them

**toi tyme** · 09-11-2009, 05:20 AM

Don't thank me, thank them

Nobody at my work remembers...

it's kinda sad......

**dpinson** · 09-11-2009, 06:17 AM

please ask what you can do for me toityme

no im just kidding ,really cool post and you are right people have forgotten i can remember exactly where i was that day when i found out what had happened

yes we are all selfish and should try a little harder to make someone elses day brighter

**FasstChevys** · 09-11-2009, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by toityme

Nobody at my work remembers...

it's kinda sad......

That is sad - I remember it like it was yesterday exactly what I was doing.

The night before, I had gotten really sick with the flu and left work at about 5 o'clock. I went home and drank a half bottle of Nyquil, curled up in a blanket and went to sleep. I woke up at about 8:15-ish and called in saying I'd be in late since i was sick.......and then I turned on the TV......and I was just in total disbelief - and couldn't comprehend it all......

**ss~zoso~ss** · 09-11-2009, 06:20 AM

TTT

We will never forget the tragedies that occurred on that day, and the world of shit we are still bringing to the terrorists.

**FasstChevys** · 09-11-2009, 06:27 AM

listen and enjoy:

**ss~zoso~ss** · 09-11-2009, 06:34 AM

^^ Just listening to that song as i read ur post lol

**FasstChevys** · 09-11-2009, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by ss~zoso~ss

^^ Just listening to that song as i read ur post lol

**86 IROC-Z** · 09-11-2009, 07:03 AM

What I find sad is that I'm getting old to the point where freshmen I meet at college weren't old enough at the time to realize the enormity of the impact it had, and that fact affects their current thoughts on it.

**dparsons1968** · 09-11-2009, 07:24 AM

That was brilliantly written.

I was in my 15th year of my 21 year Army career when the attack happened. I had just returned from a 12 month tour in Korea. Needless to say… I wasn’t back in the States long after it happened. I personally knew two people that worked on the 101st floor of the North Tower that lost their lives that day. How anyone could forget is beyond me. I am very thankful for the things that I and my family have. I have lived in third world countries and in the middle of deserts so I guess I have a different look on things than those that have not. It is so true, the words that she has written, about “take” attitudes and “all about me attitudes” that many Americans have. Be very thankful for what you have because I know, first hand, that there are many humans around the world and here in America that do not have… but desperately need… the things that some take for granted every day.

God bless the families of everyone killed or injured… not only in New York but at the Pentagon and in an empty field… middle of nowhere… Somerset county Pennsylvania (only 60 miles from my home town of Uniontown, PA), on that tragic morning 8 years ago today. I will never forget.

**00LS12LS6Z28** · 09-11-2009, 07:29 AM

I remember it like it was yesterday! That shit was surreal! We got to leave work and as I drove by the airport (Dulles), it was at a stand still except two F 16's patrolling the sky above (the plane that hit the pentagon came from this airport)....My sister lived down the street from the Pentagon and she said she felt the ground shake. My dad was on his way to the Pentagon. It is amazing how time has past....BTW great post.....

**War Theory** · 09-11-2009, 07:34 AM

Will said Toityme, I feel ya I was working at JFK airport that morning and from the roof top of term 3 ( i use to go have a few smoke's or just take in the sight) I had a great veiw of the city until 9/11 happened, my wife was working in midtown (MSG) and my brother in-law was a god 15 block's from WTC I thank good they both made it home but there was A LOT of people who didn't I know a lot of familes who lost a father/ mother daughter/son etc...and they are still hurting till this day and people really don't remember...and to me thats sad