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forgive yourself. whether you fail a test, eat too many cookies, say the wrong thing, fail a class, or spend a whole day in bed — learn to forgive yourself. the next day will be better. the next day will be a day closer to your next success. you can do it.
We’re getting pretty close to having adults who weren’t alive during 9/11, and we really need to admit at this point that the overemphasis on 9/11 in the US is just a propaganda machine to indoctrinate the younger generations into nationalism and to justify all the horrible war crimes the US committed in the Middle East, and the continued mistreatment and distrust towards refugees.
Youth will make this arguement that it’s always imperialist to bring up 9/11 or to mourn on 9/11 and if you don’t want to, that’s fine, that’s your shitick. But do not conflate it with a hurricane. Those two things are NOT similar.
Innocence died on that day. The thought that we could go about and not live in fear of being struck down at any moment ended that day. And some old white men might make it a racist thing but as you can clearly see, we live in more fear and present danger than ever before. And it wears all faces. But that was the day those of us alive came face to face with our mortality.
I was seven. I was seven and at a birthday party. The whole building closed up and shut down, everyone inside started crying and screaming. Even from where I stood, miles and miles away in a completely different state, people in that party center lost loved ones and relatives.
I had dreams of going to the Chicago Art Institute. I never went. I never went because it was a “big city” and my parents kept saying “it could happen again.” I didn’t get to fly on planes till I was much, much older because “it could happen again.” My plans for my entire life changed out of the fear born from that day. And it did for everyone that lived through it.
This new Diet Woke bullshit is the equivalent to screaming at everyday citizens to reduce their footprint to impact climate change, even though mega corporations are responsible for the overwhelming majority of waste. A handful of old white guys mourn 9/11 for the wrong reasons. Most people remember it as the day they faced the horror of how bad reality can actually get. Don’t spread this nasty shit painting it on everyone else.
That day HAS affected you, even if you weren’t alive to see it. This cycle of waiting for the next big massacre wasn’t a thing before that day, and the ever-present fear you feel wasn’t either. There was a time when people looked at the tv, saw a bunch of people dying and didn’t think “oh, so it’s happening again,” and younger generations do not have that luxury.
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