Remembering September 11th

At the southern tip of Manhatten is Battery Park City, an apartment complex near the twin towers and a hop skip and jump away from Wall Street.

That was where my sweetie lived when he spent a few years working @ 111 Wall Street. Every day, he would pass the World Trade Center and when I visited, we rode up and down the elevators and shopped in the basement stores.

Four years before September 11th 2001, he returned to Singapore for good. I cannot imagine how different life would be if he had stayed; if he had taken the same route to work he normally did.

It was hardly a close shave, but the events of September 11th 2001 reminded us that life is short and unpredictable. We can either focus on the bad and the horrific or on how the human spirit triumphs over adversity.