9/11/2001

This is a day the world will never forget. I know that I definitely will not. It is the day which changed the world. It is the day over 3000 people lost their lives. Children lost their parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and friends. Parents lost their children, friends. People lost their loved ones. They have been taken away from them in a very brutal way.

I remember the day exactly. I was eleven years old and it was a Tuesday. My mum and I were visiting a friend of her and I was playing with her daughter. Then, my mum called us, that we should come into in the living room and there it was on TV: the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The second I started seeing it on TV the second airplane crashed into the south tower.

I am not able to describe my feelings back then. I mean, I was eleven years old: Old enough to understand that something really bad just happened but not old enough to understand what exactly just happened. However, I remember that I felt empty. Just empty. And still, 13 years after that day, I feel the same way.

I cannot image what the people in the kidnapped planes where thinking or doing. Did they know what will happen? Have they been told what the terrorists planed? Were they hurt? Were they afraid? Did they pray? Did they cry? What went through their minds? Did they think of their families, friends, loved ones? No one is ever going to answers those questions. And I believe no one wants to know. It must have been the most terrible seconds of their lives. It was the end of their lives.

Today I am 24 years old. Sitting in front of my laptop, remembering and tears are falling out of my eyes. Now I know how bad it was. How horrible, unbelievable it was. There are no words to describe what I am feeling. Is it hate? Fear? Sadness? Emptiness? Incredibility? I do not know. Probably all of them. I am only sure of one feeling. And it is sympathy. Sympathy for those who lost beloved people. Sympathy for the firefighters, police officers and other people who risked their lives to save other lives.

Tuesday, 9/11/2001. This day will always be with us.