Another September 11 has come around and it is interesting to read all the different takes on how and how much this day in our nation's history should be remembered.
I see a lot of the "We will never forget" and every time I see it I wonder for how many people that also means "We will never forgive". Yep, that is a hard one.
I get the feeling some folks can't even go there at all. I understand that. Some things are just so terrible it can make you feel like you want to carry that hate towards it forever. Like your hate is the only justice that it will ever meet. I felt that way about being sexually abused as a child. I carried that delicious hatred for the person who did that to me for a very, very long time. It was all I thought I had because they never suffered any official punishment. I realized over time that the hate I carried with me was now what crippled me and allowed those things to continue hurting me long after I had grown up and stood up to my abuser and exposed what he was and what he had done to an innocent child. Forgiveness frees the victim but it does not change the fact the perpetrator will live with their crime forever. That is Universal justice and it cannot be escaped no matter how hard they try.
The trouble with 9/11 is that we don't really know the whole truth about who was really involved. My own country's Executive Administration has not convinced me yet they were not in some way involved in this incident and not knowing the truth about what happened makes it all the more difficult to process this horrible event and move beyond it. The truth will eventually come out, it always does, and if they were involved in a Reichstag and the people of this country find that out, God help them.
May every Soul that perished that day rest in peace. May their families find healing for their sadness. May that day eventually teach us how to rise above those who would harm us instead of carrying their crime in our hearts where it will forever be repeated upon us without end.
I "will never forget" what happened to me...but I had to find a way to forgive because that is the only way I would ever be free from it. There was a time I would have told you it couldn't be done, but it had to be done, and so I eventually got it done. It gave me a part of my life back that was so cruelly and I once thought forever taken from me. But I guess you have to want to be free from the hatred of having been harmed and coming to that can take a long, long time. I hope as a nation, we can get there someday.
A place where to "remember" does not have to mean we continue to allow ourselves to be hurt by the people who have harmed us...whoever they may turn out to be.
Peace y'all
5 comments:
I'm sick and tired of hearing 'we will never forget'. I think, like you, maybe the best thing for this country would be to forgive and forget.
Remembering only serves to inflame negative emotions. Fear, vengeance, and hatred are not conducive to a healthy state of mind.
If the truth about 9-11 were to come out now, the country would be cast into anarchy, with people storming Washington D.C. with kettles of tar and bags of feathers.
Thank you for taking your power back and for those who still lack the will, may they be inspired by what you have so eloquently written.
excellent post- thank you. the powers that be don't want us to forget because then they couldn't exploit it. moving on and moving forward doesn't mean dishonoring the dead- but most americans don't realize that complex thought. and i also believe that the exec. branch is complicit.
Greetings y'all,
Thanks to all of you for stopping by and commenting on my post.
Fear is the most powerful weapon of control ever devised. Worse than any bomb or gun. I spent my childhood thinking if I told anyone I and my mom would be killed. I really believed that with all my being. I might have even been right about it but now I know without a doubt, I would rather be dead than controlled like that again. I am not sure a lot of folks even know when they are being controlled by fear and it seems to me that is a kind of death in and of itself. Maybe more like being a zombie...those people scare me because they will do what they are told and all manner of harm without ever questioning if it is wrong.
Peace y'all
Congrats on your rising blogger blog of the day award. Never live in fear.
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