Everyone has their own personal experience of 9/11. Everyone’s
experience mostly involved feeling sad.
My experience was different.
On that infamous day, I was in school—like many of my peers.
I remember walking to the bathroom during one of my classes and looking into a
fourth-grade classroom. They had the TV on—which I thought was absurd. My other
teachers never allowed my classes to watch TV, so why should they. I walked
away feeling angry and upset.
Nothing else really happened until school was over. I
remember walking out of the school, and my mom was standing there. She never
stood there. I would always have to walk across the street to find her car, but
today she walked me to the car. I noticed that she was sad, but I did not care
that much. We went home, and I do not remember if a single word was said during
that car ride.
I got home and decided I would watch my favorite TV show at
the time—ESPN’s Sportscenter. I turned to channel 39, and the news was on. A
video of a building on fire was playing.
I was furious.
I flipped between all of the sports channels I knew, but
none of my routine sports shows were on. I was mad. I did not like watching the
news, but it seemed to be on every channel. I turned off the TV and decided to
play outside.
While everyone in the US was sad, I was mad because I could
not watch my shows.
Thinking about my experience of that day now, I cannot say
that I was a bad kid or that I hated my country. I think that my experience demonstrates
how a lot of kids my age felt about 9/11. The world was too big. I did not care
about what happened in other countries or other states. I only cared about
myself.
Children do not develop a worldview automatically. I am a
perfect example of that.
I know that I was a naïve kid that only cared about what
made me happy, but that view is not bad, because everyone has to develop a
worldview. I feel like 9/11 was not a bad event, in regards to my development.
9/11 was obviously a bad event in global history, but because it happened I
was able to learn about the world and understand certain conflicts in the
world. It helped me develop as a kid, and I will always remember that day as a starting
point in the development of my worldview.
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