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please bear with me folks, not thinking straight to be honest.
i can only speak for myself here and how i feel, and today is a day i wish never to see repeated.
Not only for my stuff but for the sake of the thousands of people that have been killed, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with holes blasted through their lives when this morning all was well.
These people were at work today, worrying about paying bills, whether they were going to get fat from eating that bagel on their way, wondering if they could slip away early, surfing the net instead of working - doing exactly what we do every day of our lives.
Except now they're not here anymore, in an instant (for the lucky ones) they were taken away where nothing is worried abaout anymore.
There must have been people that had just proposed, were nervous about asking that person in accounts out, worrying about finding the money to fix the car, overjoyed because they heard a piece of music that lifted their souls for a brief moment in the car.
But now they're not doing that anymore. And families/friends/colleagues/people in chat rooms are sitting in dumbfounded confusion, pain and fear because someone took them away with no warning and no permission given.
But there is a good side to this, let me try to explain why (but it is also filled with a sense of anguish and pain-fuelled sadness)
Right now, since this has happened, the entire world has stopped worrying about everything else. Everyone has stopped in their tracks and said "christ...."
Stranger are helping each other on the streets of New York, nobody cares about getting their clothes dirty, they want to help. People are getting on hands and knees and dragging rubble out of the way for each other.
The only thing on people's minds is wanting to help and trying to understand why the world can be so hateful.
I've seen strangers holding each other and offering support, just sitting down and telling each other "It's going to be alright man, it's ok"
People are, right now in this moment of time, concerned for each other.
Why does it take something like this for us to be like that?
Surely we can do this all the time? it's not that hard.
people that are helping each other and telling each other to be strong, yesterday morning they were cutting each other up in traffic and swearing at them for taking an age in a checkout line.
Everybody feels concern and sympathy for each other.
But it wont last, we'll go right back to being mean and spiteful to each other in a few weeks.
Happened with other major disastors, the world pulled together and for a brief flash, cared for each other.
But it never lasts, and that makes me sad.
Why does it have to take a tragedy like this for everyone to realise just how precious life is, regardless of whether you know someone or not?
I said it when I spoke of how my accident changed my life, I now have to be honest and sincere all the time.
Please, remember how you feel right now and keep hold of that.
Realise just how lucky we are that we are alive. Tell someone that you love them, because you might not get another chance.
Forgive someone that has been winding you up, dont let pride keep you distant from someone.
Times like this,we all need someone to talk to, cry with, share laughter with and to feel loved and needed.
Don't hate someone because they look funny or sound different or dont believe in your god, just realise that the person you mock/despise/laugh at now, would get on their knees and pull rubble away if you were trapped underneath.
Dont let it come to that before you appreciate that people need each other, we need to be told we are important, we need to be told that we're special and someone loves us or likes us.
Please please please, don't leave it until it's too late before you realise just how precious life is, because it's only when it gets taken away that you realise the thins you never did or said.
today has been very very hard for everyone with a heart and soul, you might not have lost anyone yourself, but someone else somewhere around this planet has, and they dont need nasty comments and jokes, they need to know that they can turn to someone and they will help.
i can only speak for myself here and how i feel, and today is a day i wish never to see repeated.
Not only for my stuff but for the sake of the thousands of people that have been killed, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with holes blasted through their lives when this morning all was well.
These people were at work today, worrying about paying bills, whether they were going to get fat from eating that bagel on their way, wondering if they could slip away early, surfing the net instead of working - doing exactly what we do every day of our lives.
Except now they're not here anymore, in an instant (for the lucky ones) they were taken away where nothing is worried abaout anymore.
There must have been people that had just proposed, were nervous about asking that person in accounts out, worrying about finding the money to fix the car, overjoyed because they heard a piece of music that lifted their souls for a brief moment in the car.
But now they're not doing that anymore. And families/friends/colleagues/people in chat rooms are sitting in dumbfounded confusion, pain and fear because someone took them away with no warning and no permission given.
But there is a good side to this, let me try to explain why (but it is also filled with a sense of anguish and pain-fuelled sadness)
Right now, since this has happened, the entire world has stopped worrying about everything else. Everyone has stopped in their tracks and said "christ...."
Stranger are helping each other on the streets of New York, nobody cares about getting their clothes dirty, they want to help. People are getting on hands and knees and dragging rubble out of the way for each other.
The only thing on people's minds is wanting to help and trying to understand why the world can be so hateful.
I've seen strangers holding each other and offering support, just sitting down and telling each other "It's going to be alright man, it's ok"
People are, right now in this moment of time, concerned for each other.
Why does it take something like this for us to be like that?
Surely we can do this all the time? it's not that hard.
people that are helping each other and telling each other to be strong, yesterday morning they were cutting each other up in traffic and swearing at them for taking an age in a checkout line.
Everybody feels concern and sympathy for each other.
But it wont last, we'll go right back to being mean and spiteful to each other in a few weeks.
Happened with other major disastors, the world pulled together and for a brief flash, cared for each other.
But it never lasts, and that makes me sad.
Why does it have to take a tragedy like this for everyone to realise just how precious life is, regardless of whether you know someone or not?
I said it when I spoke of how my accident changed my life, I now have to be honest and sincere all the time.
Please, remember how you feel right now and keep hold of that.
Realise just how lucky we are that we are alive. Tell someone that you love them, because you might not get another chance.
Forgive someone that has been winding you up, dont let pride keep you distant from someone.
Times like this,we all need someone to talk to, cry with, share laughter with and to feel loved and needed.
Don't hate someone because they look funny or sound different or dont believe in your god, just realise that the person you mock/despise/laugh at now, would get on their knees and pull rubble away if you were trapped underneath.
Dont let it come to that before you appreciate that people need each other, we need to be told we are important, we need to be told that we're special and someone loves us or likes us.
Please please please, don't leave it until it's too late before you realise just how precious life is, because it's only when it gets taken away that you realise the thins you never did or said.
today has been very very hard for everyone with a heart and soul, you might not have lost anyone yourself, but someone else somewhere around this planet has, and they dont need nasty comments and jokes, they need to know that they can turn to someone and they will help.
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RastaBillySkank wrote:
> But they wouldn't stop talking about how good it would be
> to have a war going on.
We'll send them off to fight it then, shall we?
I can understand it though. I was at school during the Falklands war in 1982 (I was 11), and it did seem (at the time) to be 'cool' to me and my friends.
The school had us making scrapbooks with pictures and stories from the newspapers, and I used to love watching the news with its clips of Harrier's swooping over the islands and bombing the Argies. The sinking of the Belgrano was a 'high point', and there was a great sense of national pride about the whole think.
At that age you don't generally realise what war is really like; you just see these undeniably impressive war machines going about their business, and you don't see what they leave behind. The media 'protect' you from that. Maybe if they showed some of the fatalities people wouldn't be so keen on it.
It's amazing the sense of patriotism that a war instills in people. The UK in general seems to be lacking that recently; it's a shame that people don't pull together in normal times even half as much as they do during a war, or the current events in the US.
Why do we always need such a major kick up the backside in order to make us care about strangers?
> But they wouldn't stop talking about how good it would be
> to have a war going on.
We'll send them off to fight it then, shall we?
I can understand it though. I was at school during the Falklands war in 1982 (I was 11), and it did seem (at the time) to be 'cool' to me and my friends.
The school had us making scrapbooks with pictures and stories from the newspapers, and I used to love watching the news with its clips of Harrier's swooping over the islands and bombing the Argies. The sinking of the Belgrano was a 'high point', and there was a great sense of national pride about the whole think.
At that age you don't generally realise what war is really like; you just see these undeniably impressive war machines going about their business, and you don't see what they leave behind. The media 'protect' you from that. Maybe if they showed some of the fatalities people wouldn't be so keen on it.
It's amazing the sense of patriotism that a war instills in people. The UK in general seems to be lacking that recently; it's a shame that people don't pull together in normal times even half as much as they do during a war, or the current events in the US.
Why do we always need such a major kick up the backside in order to make us care about strangers?
i heard they suggested it. did they actually have it? this minute silence?
AfroJoe wrote:
and r u really that young?
Uh huh
> all those 12 year old sickos.
To be fair to them they did suggest and carry out a minute of silence and all of us attended a special service going on to commemorate the dead. But still...
and r u really that young?
Uh huh
> all those 12 year old sickos.
To be fair to them they did suggest and carry out a minute of silence and all of us attended a special service going on to commemorate the dead. But still...
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I have the same problem. I'm 12 and am surrounded by people who
> think wars, nuclear explosions and other assorted horrors would be
> good fun to be in the middle of.
None of the teachers even
> touched on the subject, it was the only thing that was talked about
> during break and lunch but the comments made by people made me
> sick.
I really hate being as young as I am. Surrounded by idiots
> who think it'd be quite fun to "Launch some missiles and blow
> them of the Earth.
I just shut
> mysef off for the day. I barely talked to anyone and got through the
> lessons by keeping my head down and working.
I couldn't give a
> toss about Liverpools result or if my mate did his German homework.
> An event happened yesterday that changed this world completely. It
> turned it right up on it's head.
"Did you see the
> match?"
No I didn't, I was watching and worrying about more
> important things, much more important things you dough-brained piece
> of congealed monkey vomit.
very wise speech RBS. and r u really that young? all those 12 year old sickos.
that's what it was like at my school. i'm 15and they r still talking about how cool it was when the building fell and stuff like that. how ppl jumped out windows. sad!
> I have the same problem. I'm 12 and am surrounded by people who
> think wars, nuclear explosions and other assorted horrors would be
> good fun to be in the middle of.
None of the teachers even
> touched on the subject, it was the only thing that was talked about
> during break and lunch but the comments made by people made me
> sick.
I really hate being as young as I am. Surrounded by idiots
> who think it'd be quite fun to "Launch some missiles and blow
> them of the
I just shut
> mysef off for the day. I barely talked to anyone and got through the
> lessons by keeping my head down and working.
I couldn't give a
> toss about Liverpools result or if my mate did his German homework.
> An event happened yesterday that changed this world completely. It
> turned it right up on it's head.
"Did you see the
> match?"
No I didn't, I was watching and worrying about more
> important things, much more important things you dough-brained piece
> of congealed monkey vomit.
very wise speech RBS. and r u really that young? all those 12 year old sickos.
that's what it was like at my school. i'm 15and they r still talking about how cool it was when the building fell and stuff like that. how ppl jumped out windows. sad!
Stryke wrote:
You mean people at your school actually think this was fun?
> Surely no-one can.
God no! Not this. But they wouldn't stop talking about how good it would be to have a war going on.
You mean people at your school actually think this was fun?
> Surely no-one can.
God no! Not this. But they wouldn't stop talking about how good it would be to have a war going on.
Erm no.. Im talking about the little twonks at school (Sorry Ant :o)) Read sheepy's post, it says what little kids were saying.
And I was just telling him I had the same thing.
Some people sheesh
And I was just telling him I had the same thing.
Some people sheesh
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I have the same problem. I'm 12 and am surrounded by people who
> think wars, nuclear explosions and other assorted horrors would be
> good fun to be in the middle of.
You mean people at your school actually think this was fun? Surely no-one can.
> I have the same problem. I'm 12 and am surrounded by people who
> think wars, nuclear explosions and other assorted horrors would be
> good fun to be in the middle of.
You mean people at your school actually think this was fun? Surely no-one can.
He was quoting someone elese at his school.
Silly chap :)
Silly chap :)
I have the same problem. I'm 12 and am surrounded by people who think wars, nuclear explosions and other assorted horrors would be good fun to be in the middle of.
None of the teachers even touched on the subject, it was the only thing that was talked about during break and lunch but the comments made by people made me sick.
I really hate being as young as I am. Surrounded by idiots who think it'd be quite fun to "Launch some missiles and blow them of the Earth.
I just shut mysef off for the day. I barely talked to anyone and got through the lessons by keeping my head down and working.
I couldn't care about Liverpools result or if my mate did his German homework. An event happened yesterday that changed this world completely. It turned it right up on it's head.
"Did you see the match?"
No I didn't, I was watching and worrying about more important things, much more important things you dough-brained piece of congealed monkey vomit.
None of the teachers even touched on the subject, it was the only thing that was talked about during break and lunch but the comments made by people made me sick.
I really hate being as young as I am. Surrounded by idiots who think it'd be quite fun to "Launch some missiles and blow them of the
I just shut mysef off for the day. I barely talked to anyone and got through the lessons by keeping my head down and working.
I couldn't care about Liverpools result or if my mate did his German homework. An event happened yesterday that changed this world completely. It turned it right up on it's head.
"Did you see the match?"
No I didn't, I was watching and worrying about more important things, much more important things you dough-brained piece of congealed monkey vomit.
GasMask wrote:
> Sheepy I had the same thing
"WW3 would be wicked, I would
> love a war!! We would cane them like we did the
> germans.
NO IT WOULDN'T. u would probably end up dying and it runis everything. we would get dragged in to help USA coz they helped us in WW2. so WW3 would not be cool
> Sheepy I had the same thing
"WW3 would be wicked, I would
> love a war!! We would cane them like we did the
> germans.
NO IT WOULDN'T. u would probably end up dying and it runis everything. we would get dragged in to help USA coz they helped us in WW2. so WW3 would not be cool
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