Now it is officially 2 days after 9-11 and I think that I can write a little something about where I was and what I was doing. I was literally on top of the world. I was in Prudoe bay and working on the pipeline. I had offically been out of the military for two weeks and had been working for BP for one week. I had woke up and went to breakfast and we went to our briefing like every day and they made an announcement that the first tower had been hit. We were to take the rest of the day off and the next day. We all went back to our dorms and watched the drama unfold. I Strated to smoke that day (after having quit for 2 years) after I saw the second plane hit the tower. I called back to Guam and asked them if I was going to be recalled and if the needed me because all they needed to do was send a plane ticket. I tried to call my parents and then my sister and brother.
Was my cousin Karen OK? I knew that she use to work in New York. How about tiffany who I grew up with.? Were all my friends going to go over seas now? I remember feeling guilty that they had to go and I was going to sit here in Alaska and enjoy life.
The woman that I was dating at the time called and from that day we started to part I guess that we both realized life is to short to spend it on something that just wasn't there.
I can't help buyt think that If I was on those planes would I have fought like those on flight 93 or would I have sat back and hoped that they would let us go when they landed? It makes you wonder about what you do and its importance to not only you but to the world around you?
I learned that day to truely appreciate things. I still need reminders but I am starting to live life to the fullest and I truely try to give everyone a chance and let by gones be by gones. If that day had never happened I would not be where I am and have the philosophy that I do. I would not have my wife and three children. For the life lessons that I learned on that fateful day I am truely greatful. And I do beleive that it is a memorial to all those that lost their lives for all of us to live ours lives to the farthest reaches humanly possible.
2 comments:
I remember talking to you shortly after the planes hit. I felt awful for you that you were so far away from your family as I remember being so comforted by those around me. I love the comment that it is a memorial to all those who last their lives that we live ours to the fullest. I plan on doing just that! Love you bro. ~Amy
ditto. and now it's time for a new blog
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