“We don’t talk about it. Not in the weeks or months after, and not ten years after. I don’t watch the documentaries, I don’t read the books, I wasn’t even going to do this. When you live in new York, it becomes a part of you. It’s not just the place where you live, it’s an integral part of who you are and who you hope to become. I wasn’t born in new York city, but i feel homesick for it in a way I never felt for anywhere else when I leave. I have a love and hate relationship with this city like I would with a person. It represents all my hopes and triumphs, my heartbreak and challenges, my past, my future, my personality, and I know everyone else here loves it in the same way that i do. When they took those buildings and those people it was like they took a piece of each of us, and it’s personal. I think that’s why we don’t talk about it.”
— Daily reader AliNYC remembers 9/11. (via thedailyfeed)
(via thedailyfeed)
