On 9/11, I took the #4 train to fulton street and walked to the WTC. I went into building one to mail my rent check. (Two months earlier I was working in the WTC on the 21st floor. My company was closing and I was let go on June 30.) Anywho...I happened to see my old boss. We were talking and I said "I need to come up and see you guys before the company officially closes but it is already 8:40 so let me catch the path train to New Jersey." (For those of you that do not know you can catch a train to Jersey City, NJ in the WTC. The train ride is about 5 minutes and when you come out on the other side you are looking at the New York Sky Line.) My boyfriend recently told me that I neede to check my tardiness for events and I said to myself let me just go straight to work. I won't even stop for breakfast. I got on the path train and when I came out on the other side I was looking across the water at Manhattan and was really enjoying the weather. That is when the first plane hit. It was unbelieveable to see that happen with your own eyes. I ran upstairs to my office and called my mom.
It just so happens that my office had huge windows facing the WTC. When the second plane hit I was numb and when the third plane hit in D.C. that is when I left the building. I missed the first building falling but the second building fallingwas....I am sorry but there are no words to express all the feelings and the emotions that went through my mind and body. I was stuck in Jersey and spent the night out there at a co-workers house.
My boyfriend works as an EMT and was sent to the site and he said the worst thing was watching an HEARING the people that jumped.
God works in mysterious ways. I was upset that I lost my job in June but if I didn't there is no telling if I would be here to write about this.
Everyday before I go to work or step out my door I tell my boyfriend to be safe and I love him. when I call my parents and or family I always end of saying that I love you. Please remember that nothing is promised and all can be loss in a blink of an eye.
