This time last year, I posted about what I was doing that fateful day – 9/11 – when the world changed.
Has it made any changes for the positive since then?
There have been more attacks, with Islamic terrorist groups taking the blame.
Trump has been blowing his hot air into the atmosphere.
Kim Jong Un threatening to set off Nuclear bombs.
And there have been plenty of natural disasters causing mayhem in the world.
Yet;
We have seen compassion.
The rush of aid to the various places where devastations have occurred.
People cmore likely to stand up to misplaced racism, especially against those Brown Skinned folks who are nothing to do with terrorism.
Sometimes it’s just little things. If we can keep making changes, little stands against the wrongs happening in the world, maybe, just maybe, we can help to turn things around in this world.
Today stands for remembrance, for all those innocents who lost lives, in 9/11 and all the other atrocities.
But it is also a time to address that if we can make a choice, offer a hand, we can change what’s going on in the world – together.
It’s our world. It’s our children’s future.
Let’s not let it die…
But I Smile Anyway... 
Sep 15, 2017 @ 16:21:08
Really appreciate your insight here. Poignant, but also, practical and positive.
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Sep 15, 2017 @ 16:38:01
Thank you Joey xxx
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Sep 13, 2017 @ 22:34:05
well said. thank you.
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Sep 14, 2017 @ 06:40:51
Thank you xxx
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 19:43:46
A lovely post, Ritu. Well done.
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 19:47:09
Thank you Robbie. We can only hope for and try and create peace!
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 12:49:52
Beautifully said. XO Let’s stand for this planet and life.
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 13:04:21
#standtogether it’s all we can do@
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 23:11:37
Thank you, Ritu for expressing the hope that we, each one of us, can change things. For pointing out that each time we refuse to hate we make a difference 🙂
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 06:50:46
Thank you for understanding what I mean! 😀
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:58:05
It makes me so sad and angry, the world does. I can just about remember Lockerbie, as your pal mentioned above. I also remember there being a constant state of alert in my childhood too, in the 1980s, with the IRA on the scene. So although the state of terror is not a new thing, it always seems to find new ways and more sinister twists and turns 😦
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 21:07:54
That’s the worrying thing Em. We think we’ve cracked it then someone goes and managed to turn another sinister corner…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:30:53
The natural disasters are different though because – negligence aside – we can’t actually do much about them.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:45:53
No… unless you believe those saying the doings of humans are causing the great changes to happen…
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 14:23:23
maybe. but things happen anyway
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Sep 12, 2017 @ 17:41:05
What to think?
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:29:41
I remember it well too. I was working with a Govt Dept at the time and we met at teh Ministry of Defence. Suddenly we were told we would be locked in the basement and not permitted to leave.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:45:13
It was a truly scary time. My hubby was in Canary Wharf and they were on lock down too.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:24:59
Yes, there are many things still going on Sis that are terrifying, but there is also hope. People have shown remarkable kindness towards each other and have joined together in solidarity
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:44:14
So true sis xxx
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:21:59
Thank you for these nice words. Lets hope it will end up in peace.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:44:00
We will always have hope Michael 😊
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:20:15
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 20:43:36
Thanks Michael x
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 15:02:25
WP stands for WordPress and World Peace. 😊🆗🌹
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 17:41:25
We can do this is our blogily!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:49:55
I so cherish the same hopes as you Ritu. Its all so scary. 🙂
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:58:47
Truly
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:49:55
“…always bringing 9-11 up…” rather! I wish WordPress would improve their site by allowing you to edit your own remarks. I always see the glaring mistakes after re-reading the comment, then posting it. Drives me nuts!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:58:59
It’s annoying I know lol!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:47:37
“…my remarks wouldn’t register…” rather.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:45:41
In the 10th anniversary year, a Dutch (I think) architect firm designed twin towers for Korea that had a curious lattice around the two buildings that suggested the NYC Twin Towers after the two airplanes were flown into them.
The coincidence of the tenth anniversary and the suggestion of the tragedy in the new design prompted me to comment on the matter on photobooth. *(Remember that site?)
A young Peruvian immigrant who lived across the way from the Twin Towers and could see the tragedy as it happened was upset with me because my comments “would threaten our friendship with South Korea”! They might even end diplomatic relations with the USA!
A Scottish fellow, also in his early 20s and studying in Florida to become a commercial airplane pilot, mocked Americans and me for always bring 9-11 up. It was time for us to put it aside, he said because the rest of the world didn’t give a damn what happened on September 11, 2001, and, further, I was crazy to object to the Korean twin towers design because it didn’t look like anything but what it was.
Considering America’s long-term relationship with South Korea as ally and protector from aggression by North Korea, I pointed out to the ignorant young Peruvian, my remarks would register on any level with the government of South Korea.
To the Scottish would-be airline pilot, I reminded him of Lockerbie, which he would have been too young, perhaps, to remember at the time and that nearly 3000 people in three places died on September 11, 2001, that they came from over 70 countries – not just the USA – and that he, as a person studying to be a pilot of commercial jets surely should be a bit less cold and insensitive to the possibility, no matter how slight, of flying a jet hijacked by terrorists. I couldn’t believe how cold his remarks were!
I blocked both of these a-holes after that.
In retrospect, the Korean building has green spaces on the part that suggested the NYC Twin Towers in flames, and South Korea didn’t send the US Department of State an angry response with regards my comments about their building, nor did they cut off diplomatic relations! As for that a-hole Scot, I am glad he flies more safely because of tightened security on commercial flights, but there still is the risk of a terrorist managing to wear rigged shoes, underwear, whatever or carrying on explosives that might replicate a Lockerbie-like event on a plane he’s piloting. Never mind, though, because it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to the Scot!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072308/MVRDV-architects-reveal-plans-South-Korean-buildings-look-eerily-like-Twin-Towers-exploding.html
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:58:25
We will get there… It’s just going to take time…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 10:58:31
You’re so right, Ritu. In spite of the headlines, I’m sure the world is a better place. There is more compassion and caring and a willingness to share. Strangely enough, I even think some of that is filtering through to people who have the power to really change things. Not enough yet, but it’s getting there. In the mean time, those small acts of kindness we carry out each day will continue to ripple outwards.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:56:47
Slowly we will get there…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 09:14:08
It makes me sad at times that the rhetoric in the media, online and in public seems to have gone downhill since that day (as well as blaming others, hating others etc.). But I hope it’s only a temporary glitch and that people will see that the only way to survive and save our poor battered little planet is by being more together rather than pulling apart. Or do I sound too much like an idealist?
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:56:15
We can.but hope Marina!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 08:18:46
We can but stand and be counted … and if enough do … just maybe show those without it the humanity of us
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:55:45
And we must do that …
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 08:11:48
I remember that day and all the news coverage. You’re right that if people just do a little kindness to the people next to them, it makes a big difference. I follow the news about the hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma even though I don’t have any friend live in Texas or Florida, In Texas, the news said that strangers just jumped in to help and worked side by side with the professional. We need people who don’t let their hearts to turn into stone!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 08:12:18
Exactly Miriam xxx
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 08:29:59
Yes…♥♥
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:35:50
You are right Ritu, we need more empathy in our world instead of all these threats. We can’t go through with anything else than love for each other.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:38:51
Exactly Irene. When will it becone apparent to the majority? And it’s no point just thinking it. Thinking won’t make it happen. We need to DO things. 💜
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:50:52
You are right, Ritu. We can start to show empathy to others, who are not as lucky, as we are. Fx. give money and attention to homeless souls and send kind thoughts out in our universe. All we send out help. So no bad thoughts ❤
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 08:12:00
😍
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:11:09
4478 followers? Wow congratulations Ritu… such connected base
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:33:17
Thanks
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:46:38
I never fail to be amazed by the number of her followers. 🙂
You haven’t done badly either – 2369 is your connected base I noticed.
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Sep 18, 2017 @ 17:59:01
I have 17k email subscriptions too 😁 thanks… Would you like to exchange some back links with me? Good for both. I insert your link to my post n you to mine?
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Sep 19, 2017 @ 18:56:26
Sounds like a good deal! But I’m not sure how that works. You see I’m a bimbo when it comes to computer related technical stuff. I can write all day long but talk to me of links and ping backs and you’ve lost me!! 😦 that’s why I don’t even attempt the WordPress prompts and other stuff.
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Sep 19, 2017 @ 20:22:42
Haha…. no big deal m in talk with other bloggers too… we r forming a bloggers pyramid… Plz ping me after 3rd October or I ‘ll forget… It’s no big deal will tell you all … write an article small and put the links… tas it…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:55:37
Well said Sis. I fear for our children and our children’s children, there is such a divide growing I pray it’s not too late. All we can do is try. 💜💗
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:02:27
We can only pray, and hope, and make those small changes too sis!
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:22:18
Yes my dear Sis, I know 💗💜
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:50:21
this is indeed very touching and has a deep meaning…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:51:07
Thank you Mihran. Will change happen?
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:55:10
your question is very powerful – I believe in Miracles – I am almost to consider to move to another country.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 07:02:06
Thing is, it is happening everywhere Mihran…
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 09:24:12
Ritu – I am feeling so sad and pain. My family,kids wants to move to another country.
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:56:28
Where are you now?
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:48:31
💖💖💖
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Sep 11, 2017 @ 06:48:52
❤ ❤ ❤
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