YourhandMyAss
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Yup. I would too I suppose. But then again as of now I don't get tearful or sad remembering years later dates where something that affected me personally happend That might change if it was something like a parent or a child, but currently, nope. Like when friends or loved ones die and the anniversary of their death rolls around I don't lite candles in their memory or have memorials, or go to the graveyard where they're burried, or do anything special because they have died on this date years ago. Nor ask friends to pray on that day, or ask any one and to pause in their day to spend a moment remembering the dead one , like so many other people do.... I have a pen pal who's 33 ,that always asks every one to pray for her and put out a candle and remember her brother and honor his memory who died when he was 15, even though we never knew him and didn't know her back then, and I think it's kind of uncomfortable. I mean I care what happens to her cause we have a sort of friendship, but I don't get deeply affected by her brothers death when he was 15, cause I didn't know him, didn't know her, and was not personally involved or affected by the event and I am not really comfortable with doing memorial type things, or devoting emotional energy to mourning someone I didn't know. quote:
ORIGINAL: Racquelle About this time 7 years ago, our niece went into labor. Jakob was born on 9/12/01. I feel that the events of 9/11 were a monumental failure of humans to love one another. On 9/12 we were handed a new baby and God said "Ok, try again." I live on the West Coast, and the events of 9/11 are a bit abstract, so to me, a lot of the "reliving" is a bit disingenuous. I am sure I would feel a lot differently if I was actually anywhere near the major events, quote:
But you know how you can get some weird, barely connected person who shows up at a funeral and they usurp the event by being overly mournful and weepy, and it's a bit offensive to actual close relatives and friends?
< Message edited by YourhandMyAss -- 9/11/2008 9:50:39 PM >
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