Tomorrow is September 11th. For the last week or so every station, show, interview or interviewer is discussing the 10th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. I know where I was at that exact moment the world changed, I remember when I came home after that very long day, the very first image I saw on CNN was someone jumping to their inevitable death. I remember it all. The days and weeks to follow, there are so many images that are now resurfacing that bring back all those memories to the front of our hearts and minds.

I remember going to New York that October with my friend Lori, who worked in lower Manhattan and when we went down to Ground Zero, it was still smoking. It was crazy, because I remember wanted to take pictures, but thought that it was disrespectful to do that. Tomorrow finally there will be a memorial that can be photographed in a respectful way.
I remember a dream I had about my friend Corey, who was living in NYC at the time, trying to tell me that he was okay. I had my mom phone his mom a couple of weeks after and thank g-d he was fine, and I saw him on my trip that October. He is now married with three children and living in Toronto.

But….as I was sitting watching the View, I started to think about my OWN life, and what has changed or has happened to me in my life in the last 10 years. It is pretty crazy actually. I thought I would share some of my thoughts.

10 years ago:
– Mark had not married yet married Shawna. Of course that means that Zoe, Jaime and of course Ezra were not in my life. Since then, I have had the chance to have a great extended family and have been able to be a part of their lives as well.
– There was no facebook, and therefore hadn’t reconnected with so many people I now call friend again. As well, all the people I have met since that have changed my life.
– Blogging, twitter, linked in, texting, bbm…..what did we all do to connect before that time…LOL!
– I hadn’t met Brad yet. That didn’t happen until 2003 which of course had a huge affect on my life.
–  I hadn’t bought my condo yet and was still living at home. That wasn’t until 2004 and then not until 2006 until I moved.
– We still had Adath Shalom shule that we were a part of. It hasn’t felt the same since we stopped going there.
– My uncle Solly was still with us.
– Aviva was still with us. That is all I can say about that.

All of those thoughts just flew out of my head and onto the keyboard. If I thought about how much more there was going on in my life before September 11, 2001, I could be here for a long time.

I am sure that everyone will take some time tomorrow to reflect on the day.

Remember what you have today, what you had before that fateful day and everything that has happened in between.