Kymberley
I perfected 'BITCHYNESS'
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First of all, please forgive me for this rambling. I just have to get this out of my head.
So many of us didn't know a single person hurt or killed in this tragedy. So many us still just sit and watch the news reports flowing in so quickly that it boggles the mind trying to decifer what is factual and what is speculation.
Having never in my lifetime experienced anything so horrific, I am like so many millions of people who too are at a loss for words. The thoughts are swirling so violently inside my head, but I can't get the words to my lips. I feel like I want to scream, but I have no idea what sounds would actually escape my mouth.
How do we stop this numbness? How do you slow down the images that are filling my head so rapidly that I seem to ignore what my eyes are seeing and only visualize the scenes of horror my mind is continuing to imagine?
What about the children? So many thousands of them kissed their mommies, daddies, or grandparents yesterday morning as they were dropped off at daycare and school. Do you picture the faces of those children watching the front door of the building waiting for their parents to return to pick them up?
I can't stop my mind from wandering. I can't stop it from playing out scenarios of what some stranger 1500 miles away from me is going through. It is like watching a movie on a big screen. You see a face that you even now you have never set eyes on before. You don't really see the face, you just know it is there. You see them struggling to cope with the horror filling their eyes at the devastation surrounding them. You see them, buried, gasping for breath, praying to live, ingoring the intense pain of crumpled steel cutting into their flesh.
I see these strangers as I drive down the highway. I hear the voices on the radio just adding to the already millions of statements and visions my brain has struggled to catalog in the last 24 hours. I am so tired. I can't sleep. I can't stop the tears from stinging my eyes.
What did we learn? Anything? Do you notice how calm the country seems in the sense of the commuters on the highway? I can't begin to tell you how the 50 or so people entering the roadways and merging into MY lane this morning just had absolutely no effect on my drive home. I was not in the hurry that I have been in for the last 8 years. It just didn't matter how many people got in MY way. I still had a way to left to follow. How many people can cut in front of you on the interstate today and it just not bother you?
Have we all learned that lesson of love and compassion? Do we look at the strangers we encounter from today on and smile instead of ingore? Will we pay attention to those who just used to be a bother to us?
Can we finally see that we need to put aside differences of religious beliefs, political agendas, selfish desires, racial issues, and just hatred and indifference in general?
Please think about this. Please ask yourself if being the leader in the fast lane on the interstate is really the most important thing in the world to you. Please ask yourself if you can be willing to let others be what they want to be and just be happy for them? Please ask yourself if you can make a real difference in this world?
The rage in this country has to stop. We have to close ranks and stand together. Why must it take a national tragedy to make us see that the bickering is so petty. Why did it take losing thousands of AMERICANS to make the americans stand beside each other un-divided.
United We Stand. Divided We Fall.
So many of us didn't know a single person hurt or killed in this tragedy. So many us still just sit and watch the news reports flowing in so quickly that it boggles the mind trying to decifer what is factual and what is speculation.
Having never in my lifetime experienced anything so horrific, I am like so many millions of people who too are at a loss for words. The thoughts are swirling so violently inside my head, but I can't get the words to my lips. I feel like I want to scream, but I have no idea what sounds would actually escape my mouth.
How do we stop this numbness? How do you slow down the images that are filling my head so rapidly that I seem to ignore what my eyes are seeing and only visualize the scenes of horror my mind is continuing to imagine?
What about the children? So many thousands of them kissed their mommies, daddies, or grandparents yesterday morning as they were dropped off at daycare and school. Do you picture the faces of those children watching the front door of the building waiting for their parents to return to pick them up?
I can't stop my mind from wandering. I can't stop it from playing out scenarios of what some stranger 1500 miles away from me is going through. It is like watching a movie on a big screen. You see a face that you even now you have never set eyes on before. You don't really see the face, you just know it is there. You see them struggling to cope with the horror filling their eyes at the devastation surrounding them. You see them, buried, gasping for breath, praying to live, ingoring the intense pain of crumpled steel cutting into their flesh.
I see these strangers as I drive down the highway. I hear the voices on the radio just adding to the already millions of statements and visions my brain has struggled to catalog in the last 24 hours. I am so tired. I can't sleep. I can't stop the tears from stinging my eyes.
What did we learn? Anything? Do you notice how calm the country seems in the sense of the commuters on the highway? I can't begin to tell you how the 50 or so people entering the roadways and merging into MY lane this morning just had absolutely no effect on my drive home. I was not in the hurry that I have been in for the last 8 years. It just didn't matter how many people got in MY way. I still had a way to left to follow. How many people can cut in front of you on the interstate today and it just not bother you?
Have we all learned that lesson of love and compassion? Do we look at the strangers we encounter from today on and smile instead of ingore? Will we pay attention to those who just used to be a bother to us?
Can we finally see that we need to put aside differences of religious beliefs, political agendas, selfish desires, racial issues, and just hatred and indifference in general?
Please think about this. Please ask yourself if being the leader in the fast lane on the interstate is really the most important thing in the world to you. Please ask yourself if you can be willing to let others be what they want to be and just be happy for them? Please ask yourself if you can make a real difference in this world?
The rage in this country has to stop. We have to close ranks and stand together. Why must it take a national tragedy to make us see that the bickering is so petty. Why did it take losing thousands of AMERICANS to make the americans stand beside each other un-divided.
United We Stand. Divided We Fall.
