September 11th

Tomorrow is September 11th. It is so hard to believe it has been six years ago since the terrible events happened in the U.S. I'm sure most of you remember what you were doing on that fateful day. I was teaching--actually walking my students to the restroom when the school secretary walked up to me and said there had been attacks on the World Trade Center. While the students were at P.E., I turned the t.v. on to find out information for myself. I was watching in horror at the events, but I was not prepared to watch what happened next--the collapse of the first tower--and then the second. During about that same time, I found out those were not the only tragedies. The Pentagon and the other crash in Pennsylvania were also part of this horrific terror attack. I remember for about the first month after these events, people were actually nice to each other. Each morning on the way to work, I had to make a left turn in the middle of a ton of bumper to bumper traffic. Before 9/11, I had to try to squeeze in because no one would let me in. Right after 9/11, everybody wanted to let me in. Then about a month later, I was back to trying to squeeze in. At first, I thought that people had started valuing life so much more and were wanting to make the most of the life they have. It is a shame a tragedy has to happen for people to really want to show real kindness to one another. Don't get me wrong, I know lots and lots of people who are wonderful and kind to everyone they come in contact with. I'm talking about those people who will not let you in while in traffic, those who will not hold the door open for you, the ones who get bent out of shape over little things, etc. I know I need to work on many things to be a kinder person to those people I come in contact with--how about you?