It's been a year already. Hard to believe. Does anyone think that it went by pretty fast? I believe that it has. I still remember that day going to work and stopping at Walgreen's on my way there. The associates were saying "Hurry up, cut on the tv! I heard something about a plane crash in New York!" I really didn't think much of it as I payed for my snacks at the register- that is, until I got to work. Just about everyone in the Admin office had their eyes glued to the television, watching the events unfold before there very eyes. I just looked in total confusion as they showed the first tower falling into large clouds of dusty smoke. It just didn't seem real watching that on the television- it was like, watching a movie with special effects. Except these weren't special effects, this was reality. That's what caused the confusion. Maybe as people we are so desensitized by all of these action films with big explosions and such, that when something similar to a movie plot is played out in reality, that it's hard to grasp, difficult to understand, and uncomfertable to watch. By the time that I made it home from work, to hopefully find some salvation in finding something to watch on television, I discovered that many of the networks, especially the ones that had their studios in New York were off the air. All the channels that I flipped through were showing non-stop coverage of the "Attack on America". It's crazy how they had a name for it already within the same 24 hours of the event occuring. Then for the news coverage to continue for the next week almost constantly began to have its take on a lot of people. It came to the point where I had to find other outlets for means of driving away the boredom, like browsing the internet, talking to my parents and friends, or just listening to music. Well, I don't want to make it seem like I am some sort of tv junkie, but it was depressing and bothersome to see the same video of the airplane crashing into the twin towers. I was basically sick of it, like many people around were. We all just had enough, and wanted to regain some type of normalcy in our lives, just to bring back some level of comfort.
I hope that this year we as people will regain greater levels of comfort as we celebrate the first anniversary of that fateful day.