I will be adhering to my annual ritual of ignoring TV and radio today.
This. I was in a cranky mood last night and this doesn't really help it. I have a big day ahead with work and then a meeting after work so it will be easy to avoid. But then I will hear all about the hubbub of 9/11 from my H when he gets home later.
All I want to do today is watch something like Beastmaster on TV, drink tea, and lay on the couch all day.
Just came in from walking the dog and the weather is eerily very much like that morning. Not a cloud in the sky and one of those early crisp fall days. Glorious weather...that was my first thought this morning. But thanks Facebook, probably didn't need those flaming building pix either.
I hate failing at avoiding references today. I was thinking maybe I'd just hang on Pinterest but god knows i'll see a few smokey tower images there too. Online shopping?
Post by cattledogkisses on Sept 11, 2012 7:49:13 GMT -5
I was feeling like an ass for having the same thoughts when I logged into Facebook this morning and everything in my newsfeed was a giant picture of planes flying into flaming buildings. I'm trying not to judge people for how they remember something they were profoundly affected by, but yeah, I may stay off Facebook today.
I did judge my sister though. She posted about how upsetting today was for her. Child, you were in 2nd grade when this happened. I doubt you even remember most of it.
Post by GailGoldie on Sept 11, 2012 7:58:28 GMT -5
I, personally, like to feel a bit upset and sad on this day. I also like to feel joy, too, and remember that life goes on.
I watched the towers fall from my window at work and felt the terror and worry that people I knew and loved were in there (thankfully all got out).... and I personally feel like watching some of the names being read each year, and feeling some of that emotion again, is important to me.
Everyone deals in a different way. How about you just step back and do it your way... and let others do it their way.
I was feeling like an ass for having the same thoughts when I logged into Facebook
Me too. Especially because I had posted something funny about my DS. Then all the 9/11 posts started.
I'm kind of like "why? does it make you feel better to let everyone else know that YOU remember?". I remember, we all do. I don't really need to tell everyone I remember.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Sept 11, 2012 8:09:31 GMT -5
We are watching horrible hospital Tv all day long, and that is all that is on. Guess we are keeping it on TLC, and HGTV. Any other daytime tv suggestions? If I have to watch Love It or List It again, I may drive a plane into a tower myself.
Letting others deal with it their own way means not posting violent images on Facebook accompanied by preachy language that tells other people how to mourn. Just because I'm not an asshole doesn't mean I don't care about 9/11.
That's the thing, though. Fine, you don't realize the day OF until later... but big picture, you remember, right? If not today, then tomorrow, or next month, or.... you'll never "forget" about 9/11.
Every time I see a fire department out collecting money - we always give and I always give in the light of remembering 9/11.
I tried to watch HGTV this morning and there was a segment about a woman who got obsessive about her garden as a way to heal after her son died. And they kept talking about the darn son and his death and not, you know, the garden.
Okay, can I just direct the talk away from FB for a second? I was flipping stations on the radio while driving into work today and came across one station's Sept. 11 "tribute" that, no kidding, included hip hop, techno and dance music mixed in with audio soundbites from that day.
I listened in horror and then nearly drove off the road when they dubbed in the voicemail a firefighter left his family before he went into the towers. The song they used? "Somebody That I Used to Know."
I nearly drove off the road and I'm usually not bothered by stupid radio bits. It was just awful. Awful. Forget "empty gesture." It was just horrifying.