Three months later--Is everyone ok?

[furie]

I'm not sure if this should be in GD or off topic. but since R&F were talking about it last night i'm posting here.
Now that it's three months after the attack, how is eveyone doing? How has eveyone's lives changed? For better or worse?

For me, i've gone through alot of changes. Following the terror attacks i quit my job with a certain gov't agency due to my disgust with how they handled themselves. I was lucky to get picked up by another agency and my life has returned to normal. Being on LI my life wasn't as adversly affected as others. I hope those in Manhattan are doing well.



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This message was edited by furie on 8-7-02 @ 8:26 PM

[IkeaBoy]

i'm good.

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[RF Godfather]

How am I... I'll tell you sometime down the line.

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[Chet]

I've been better, but definitely on a more positive trend.

My ex-girlfriend was working in WTC 1 when the first plane hit. She got out, fortunately, but the stories she tells about what happened, and what she saw are nightmarish. She wanted me to be with her that day and for several weeks after, for comfort and support.

I just spent the past 3 days packing up her stuff, she has since moved back to her home down South, and needed a hand in getting things together for her. It was pretty emotional going through pictures and things that I bought her, and knowing that she won't be back.

[TheGameHHH]

I am certainly better, but I don't think I will ever be the same.

IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME-AHHH!

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[IkeaBoy]

i am strangly fine, the fact that i'm handling it so well bothers me more than the actual event.

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[reeshy]

When I started to read this thread, I started to cry-no Kidding!! My life certaintly has changed for the worse considering all the friends tha I have lost in the attack! All I can do now is go to work until I retire - I don't know what I will then.

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This message was edited by reeshy on 12-11-01 @ 7:51 PM

[Tazz1376]

I have to say that I think I am much better than before everything happened. I have made some positive changes in my life, and I think most things are going very well now.

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Thanks Rooster

[Sunrisa]

im not awful. but not back to who i was...
i think im changed for good.
will i get better??
i hope so.


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thank you rooster.

stand united.

[Zipgun]

Like Melissa, I'm not as bad as I was, but I'll never be the same way I used to be before this all.

The day everything went down, I had been off work since I had returned on a flight from Vegas the night before into Newark. That was the last time I saw the Towers, from the air, late at night. I always would stare at them no matter where they were in my field of vision, but from a plane at night, they were quite beautiful. The next morning, I couldn't believe what I was watching. After the first few minutes, it finally occurred to me that my brother was working on Wall St at the time. And that's when I really lost my shit. Long story shorter, he eventually got out and got in touch with us, so thank God he was ok. He told me how when he left his building, there was body parts in the street, and how he watched the second tower collapse from the Liberty Island Ferry as it pulled away from Manhattan. He's not been near the same since. But yet, he still goes back to work, 6 days a week.

The bad dreams at least have stopped for now. I hope they never come back.

And for anyone that has lost someone, friend, family, or lover...be strong, and my thoughts, as most anyone else's, are with you.

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This message was edited by skidmark on 12-11-01 @ 9:08 PM

[RF Godfather]

Oh my God... after hearing that again makes me really well up again... damn those bastards!

I'm sorry... I think I have changed but I don;t know anymore...

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[french bread pizza]

i was okay for the first month and a half..then i guess i started reading stories of survivors or the nonsurvivors..i cry every time now...just makes me think


i'm not sure if i've changed..but i do know i've taken my life and looked at it into a different perspective, and i haven't quite decided what to do with it yet


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[TooCute]

Definitely not the same, but
who is? The nightmares at
least seemed to have finally
stopped a couple of weeks
ago, but still though events
are not directly on my mind,
I feel it's impossible to
concentrate on anything
very well.

It seemed completely
unreal right after it
happened, and it still
doesn't seem too real to
me. It is such an
unbelievably unbelievable
thing!!!!!!


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[furie]

the fact that i'm
handling it so well bothers
me more than the actual
event.

that sums up how i feel
exactly.
not to sound fatalistic, but
you never know. i took this
event as a chance to
reevaluate my life.

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This message was edited by furie on 8-7-02 @ 8:33 PM

[Arienette]

most of the time i think i'm fine, or at least better. then i'll have some horrible nightmare or start crying at some really strange and inapproriate time, and i'm not so sure. i mean, i know it's normal for people to have those kinds of reactions - they're probably the most normal nightmares i've ever had.

i think i've started to lose some of the perspective that i'd gained after everything happened. for a while, i was felt unbelievably sad but also unbelievably lucky... i appreciated the things that i might not have otherwise, and i understood how little the things that usually bother me and stress me out really mean. that has diminished a lot recently, and i find that more disturbing than almost anything else.

i guess there's really nothing much to do except to try and remember what's really important in life and to enjoy those things for as long as we can. it's been a horrible, frightening time for everyone, and i just hope that you all are doing alright

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the moon it leaves silver but never sleep
and then the silver turns to grey
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