Where were you September 11, 2001?

[lookingland]

I gotta say: I just feel hostile about this kind of question. Turns the event into some kind of folklore, but I guess it's inevitable. All these years later people still say "Where were you when JFK was assissinated?" for example, so I guess I have no real reason to find this question irritating. It's nothing personal, just feel icky about other people's sentimentality, I guess. Maybe that's not fair. Maybe I'm just a cold and unfeeling person. But I guess there's a bigger picture here that people overlook when they start thinking about themselves and their "personal relationship" to September 11. And I think people need to grieve in their own way and maybe my way is not the majority way, but it will always confound and disturb me how people respond to tragedies like this. How they often can't see the larger evil at work, how they can lament the destruction of the towers and then demand we go drop bombs on other human beings.

Anyway, I guess my first response is where was I emotionally, spiritually. Physically is sort of immaterial to me. I try to look at how I have changed or grown or learned from this. I hope I have. Otherwise, the deaths really were senseless.