09/11/2025
🙏 09/11/2001 “We Will Never forget” 🙏
Where were you when the world stopped turning?
I’ll never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001.
I was just a high school sophomore in Littleton, Colorado, going through my usual morning routine — groggy, getting ready for school, mind on nothing in particular. It felt like any other Tuesday.
Then someone told me to turn on the TV.
And in that moment, everything changed.
I watched in disbelief as smoke poured from the Twin Towers. The confusion on the reporters’ faces. The second plane hitting. People running. Jumping. Praying. Crying. I didn’t fully understand what I was seeing, but I felt it — in the pit of my stomach, in my chest, in my soul.
That day, nearly 3,000 lives were stolen.
Thousands more shattered. And yet, out of that unimaginable darkness, something powerful rose — compassion. Humanity. Unity.
Strangers became family. First responders ran toward the danger when everyone else ran away. People held each other, cried with each other, stood together — no politics, no division, just love and loss and the aching desire to do something good in a broken moment.
Today, 24 years later, I want to invite you to do something simple but powerful:
💬 Pause.
💬 Breathe.
💬 Reflect.
👉 Who or what are you grateful for — right now, in this exact moment?
👉 Who could use your kindness today — even if it’s just a smile, a message, a reminder they’re not alone?
👉 What part of your life are you taking for granted — and how can you honor it more fully?
We don’t get to control when tragedy strikes. But we do get to decide how we live afterward. How we show up for others. How we carry ourselves — with kindness, with humility, with purpose.
So if this post reaches you today, don’t just scroll past.
Leave a comment. Share something you’re grateful for. Or tag someone who needs to hear they matter.
Let’s honor the memory of 9/11 by choosing to live more deeply — and love more freely — every single day we’re given is a blessing. So let’s be a blessing to each other.
We will never forget. 🇺🇸