I’ll never forget….

I know that anyone who was born before September 11, 2001 immediately has a memory attached to this blog title. “Never forget”. How many times have you seen this quote on a sign, number sticker, graffiti, news headlines? I will never forget anything about 9/11/01, and I will never forget the insane community of a country of humans that rose in result of that day. I will never forget the unprecedented empathy that so naturally flowed from enemies, there was this moment in time where strangers were randomly kind to each other, there seemed to be this eerie yet gentle energy amongst people. We watched the elected officials publicly attempt to lead us to unite through “bipartisan” blah blah blah..It wasn’t the elected officials that led anything, AT ALL. The eerie yet peaceful feeling was driven through the human spirit. It was driven through the explosive vulnerability that was forced upon all of us to expose, and we watched people crumble to their most vulnerable places and we watched as strangers gathered to comfort and help build back up. The force of empathy that surged was impossible to stop. We all ROSE. We rose for the loss of life, we rose for the injustices unwillingly cast upon us, we rose united as one. Not because of the ridiculous idea of politics, if anything, once the politics and politicians had allowed us to take a breath, the divide amongst the people resumed, and we forgot. We never forget that hideous day, the events that occurred, and what was to follow. We forgot that at the end of the day, it wasn’t our government who led us into unity, it was just us. We know what to do. We are designed to do it. The power of the most inner human spirit, that we all possess, it was led us to rise.

It provides me with such hope and faith in our human spirits. We have been dealt the crappiest of hands when it comes to fear. It’s everywhere. It’s our normal. We expect fear in places it has no business. What an incredible resume fear has! Diabolically evil and destructive, yet we allow it to rule as the norm. I will never forget 9/11/01 and the days that followed, not because of what I was told, but because of the way I felt. Those feelings of empathy were felt viscerally, and still are. Those are in every single one of us. those are the memories that we should never forget, because those were and always will be, the true driver of change. So, power to the people! We know what to do.

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” -maya angelou

Never forget.

So much love and respect.

Xo-e