I accepted a position with Americorps about 2 months ago. And in a week and a half, I start that job. It has been so long since I've needed to get up early or to leave the house during traffic. I'm not sure how I'll handle it.
It's scary and a little exciting and mostly nervewracking. Counting down the days now.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
13 Years Ago...
Next year, I will have been alive 14 years before 9/11 and 14 after 9/11. These are the strange moments.
Along the same line, I just recently calculated that I've been alive for 3 years longer without my grandpa, than I had been alive with him. But time does not heal all wounds.
Because, in both cases, some days I wake up feeling as if they were yesterday. As if yesterday, my axis tilted, and my center of gravity hasn't yet adjusted.
And now, today, on the remembrance of the terrorist attacks that changed our world, I want to take a moment to urge peace. Men and women of all creeds and of all colors died that day. They died because some extremists, some awful, awful people decided that they had to, so that the extremists might make the world suffer. And we did. We suffered, but if today, you choose hate, then what are you? You are part of the problem. Today, we must choose hope, peace, love. These are the things that fight the terrorists. These are the things that they can fight and destroy.
Only we can do that.
So today, remember that these terrorists who changed our world want you to wallow in hate. And choose not to.
Along the same line, I just recently calculated that I've been alive for 3 years longer without my grandpa, than I had been alive with him. But time does not heal all wounds.
Because, in both cases, some days I wake up feeling as if they were yesterday. As if yesterday, my axis tilted, and my center of gravity hasn't yet adjusted.
And now, today, on the remembrance of the terrorist attacks that changed our world, I want to take a moment to urge peace. Men and women of all creeds and of all colors died that day. They died because some extremists, some awful, awful people decided that they had to, so that the extremists might make the world suffer. And we did. We suffered, but if today, you choose hate, then what are you? You are part of the problem. Today, we must choose hope, peace, love. These are the things that fight the terrorists. These are the things that they can fight and destroy.
Only we can do that.
So today, remember that these terrorists who changed our world want you to wallow in hate. And choose not to.
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