Tragedies are complex events: At the time, you think you’ll never, ever forgot the moment, but as time crawls on, the memories of the tragedy start to fade into the background of history.
This is the first year since 9/11 where my social media feeds weren’t loaded with pictures of that fateful day. In fact, I didn’t see anything about it.
In a way, it’s to be expected. Nobody really talks about WWI anymore unless you’re just interested in learning about it.
WWII is only mentioned now when people want to call each other Nazis.
It’s not healthy to constantly relive the bad things of the past and dig them up over and over again. We’ve, also, got enough on our plates pretty consistently now that a mind can only deal
with so much.
For younger generations, they don’t remember or know that day and all the emotions that came with it. That’s understandable, it wasn’t a tragedy they lived through.
And like everything else, it seems, this day will move into a quiet space. Maybe that’s appropriate, I don’t know.
But, if you get a chance, Catholic Pilgrims, thank God for the heroes in our lives and say a prayer for those that will never forget 9/11 because they lost a loved one.
Have a blessed Monday.
