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2002-08-19

I woke up that morning and was getting ready for my morning class at the technical college when I heard about the attacks on the radio. I didn't know for sure what was happening because it just didn't seem real. I thought the radio announcer was just making stuff up because he's like that, but when I turned on the tv, I saw it was for real. I went on to school and for the first two hours of class, we sat and watched as first one tower fell, and then the other. It didn't affect me right then because it was all just too hard to believe that something like that could be happening to our country. All the tv's in the whole school were tuned in to see what was happening, and classes were cancelled for the day, but no one left. We all just stayed glued to our seats to watch this unbelievable tragedy. It finally hit me the Wednesday night after it happened. I was lying in bed with my boyfriend when all the suddden it hit me that so many lives had been lost, and how so many people had lost someone that they loved. So many people had family and friends in those two buildings and I can't even imagine the hurt and the grief that they must be going through to lose someone in such a terrible way. After the attacks, I took a long, hard look at my own life and decided to pay more attention to the little things, and not focus so much on who has wronged me or made life difficult for me. I have learned that life is indeed very short and you never know which day may be your last. So you better live and love as much as you can while you've got the chance, and not take the things you care about for granted because, tomorrow, they may not be there.