Dear Editor:
When something and someone we have is gone, that’s when we learn and know how to appreciate what we have when it’s gone.
We have it right in front of us at all times. We can have it near us always, and yet, we avoid it, because it’s there right in front of us, right in front of our eyes to see at all times (because we have everything easy.)
Billions and billions and billions of people far away wish to have and to see the easy freedom that we have, and yet they can’t. Because of long, long distance reasons and the blind people wish to see, and wish to have and yet, they can’t. (and many more situations). People that don’t have, wish to have, and people that do have, they push aside. Because we are too spoiled to appreciate.
I live, I was born and raised here in Hoboken, NJ with the view of NYC right in front of my eyes. To see and cherish and treasure always right in front of me.
Tears, sadness and grief are surrounding me so much now because of the tragic shocking terrorist attack and the loss of the beautiful famous Twin Towers that I face right in front of my balcony view. I saw with my eyes (and many people too) the building tumbling down to ashes.
"No more Twin Towers…no more!" Now that is gone, I grieve silently inside my heart. As I look out my balcony I’m ashamed and I’m silently sad because I’m not even sure where the Twin Towers were standing "because I never cared."
When I became blessed with an open view in my balcony home to see NYC, I never cared.
"But now, now I care." I’m caring now when it’s too late. The Twin Towers are gone…forever!
I’m an American who never cared, who never appreciated the beauty of the Twin Towers when they were proudly standing tall right in front of my eyes.
I’m now in grief, I am now missing them. And it’s too late.
When they were right in front of me to see, I never bothered and I never cared.
Now I care, now I learned how to appreciate goodness.
Thank you.
A Hobokenite