759th Friday Blog Roundup
It was strange to think on 9/11 that 18 year olds (and, for that matter, even 24 year olds) have no memory of 9/11. A long time ago, it was only small children who had no memory of that day, but now it’s adults, too. The next generation has a totally different outlook when the date rolls around on the calendar, which is true for every major historical event. My parents don’t remember World War II. I don’t remember the Vietnam War. My kids were born well after 9/11.
I felt very tense leading up to the day. The kids did not. I have a hard time explaining how that day felt.
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It’s Friday the 13th. I feel this compulsion to write that every time the Roundup falls on the 13th. Just ignore me.
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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
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And now the blogs…
But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- None… sniff.
Okay, now my choices this week.
In Quest of a Binky Moongee writes about getting together with a friend to celebrate her friend’s 40th birthday. Her friend is thrilled to reach 40 and simultaneously sad that she didn’t hit life goals yet that she had hoped to hit, such as a partner and children. She explains: “It is hard sometimes for her to watch others at her age move forward in one direction while she is going another direction.” She realizes how much she understands based on her own experience with infertility. It’s a reminder of the importance of being there for each other.
No Kidding in NZ highlights an exchange between two US television hosts. One stated “that he thought there was ‘a bigger difference between people with kids and people who don’t have kids, than Red state Blue state’ politics.” I don’t agree, though Mali says things so much better than I do. Everyone should read her answer.
Lastly, Anabegins has a post that I could relate to about coping mechanisms (as a fellow self-distractor and seeker of comfort in easy ways). I liked her first point about how only part of you believes the negative because if you fully believed the negative (and didn’t have a secret nagging suspicion that you’re also sort of okay?), you would make different decisions. It’s an interesting post.
The roundup to the Roundup: Thoughts on 9/11. Friday the 13th. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between September 6th and 13th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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9/11. I get what you are saying. My 9th grader came home talking about how sad it was to hear about it in class. And I can’t even talk about it without crying. How we watched live shots of the towers burning, heard the frantic on-air calls come in on the news of people crying and begging looking for loved ones, how we watched scared desperate people leaping out of the towers in real time, how time stopped that day.
My husband recorded a documentary that aired 2 days ago. I can’t sit through those because living it once was enough. But this one had audio from the control towers trying to figure out what was happening, what to do. And my son heard some of it from another room and said “it sounds like so much confusion, like no one knew what was happening or what to do”. And he told him, yes, exactly. We didn’t know, because nothing on that scale ever happened before. There weren’t protocols in place.
I caught some live shots of some friends who live in NYC visiting the memorial. I was just there in December, and the entire grounds are quiet save for the waterfalls in the pools. It is so heavy standing there. Even in December, when the fire department had to leave for a call (and due to the blockades around the memorial where vehicles aren’t allowed, it’s a tight corner to get a fire truck out, everyone in the area made a circle around the truck and stood and saluted the crew. It’s impossible to forget.
we had an appointment with a realtor because we were going to put our house on the market on 9-11-2011 at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. She was stuck in traffic so my husband put on the tv. i never forget how I felt when he slowly said. com over I think we need to wath this, this is big. I walked over looked and there was that 2nfd plane. Realtor arrived we said you might want to watch some news. She looked like she might faint. @0 minutes later we talked about the quality of our hardwood floors. @ weeks later I find out that I was pregnant. We had been trying for over a year but it was so scary….. In august the realtor called. She just wnated to know if the baby was there. your baby was such a thing of joy and hope for me she said. He still is and it so crazy he will be an adult this time next year… And it is crazy weird that he has never known a world in which war was something of the past… Growing up in the 90’s was so nice
I read something that pointed out that 18 years is ancient history to most kids and asked the reader to think about what historic event took place 17-18 years before YOU were born. For me, that would be WWII, D-Day, etc. Yikes. That kind of put it into perspective for me. But it’s still hard to realize so many years have gone by.
Brooke has a post about 9/11 and luck that I will be digesting for a long time:
https://bythebrooke.blogspot.com/2019/09/on-luck.html
So weird to teach history over the years and watch 9/11 go from an “everyone remembers” first person to a “people tell me about it” third person.
Mr. Money Moustache posted an article just for you this past week. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2019/09/12/michael-burry-index-funds/
Thanks for flagging my post this week, Mel. That Jon Stewart is getting a lot of publicity!
It does seem weird that there are adults who don’t remember these major events in life. As Loribeth said, the equivalent for me would also be WWII or the Korean War, which seemed like ancient history when I was young. That said, I have sharp memories of watching war movies and the Holocaust TV series that made it seem real and shocking to me as a teenager. And the older I get, of course, the more I realise that 18 years is nothing at all!
Hope I’m not too late to add these for Second Helpings! 😉
An Unexpected Family Outing, on one of those throwaway joking phrases parents use that cause bereaved parents pain:
https://unexpectedfamilyouting.com/2019/09/08/congrats-on-keeping-the-kids-alive-im-the-mom-who-couldnt/
This post of Mrs. Spit’s had me at a loss for words:
http://mrsspit.ca/?p=6315