After recovering from the initial shock at the news of Osama Bin Laden's death last night, I felt an immense sense of relief. I have lived with this awful fear in my life for the last decade, as I'm sure have others. People I know and love, as well as people that don't have a clue who I am, have been overseas risking their lives to help remove this fear. For a few moments I was ecstatic it was gone. Then suddenly I was filled with sadness .... sadness remembering the horrors of 9/11 ..... sadness realizing this doesn't mark the end of the terrorism we will face ... sadness that one person can feel and spread that much hate .... and sadness because the goal of our mission was the death of another.
I have been praying for an absolute resolution to this fear for years and now that I thought it had been granted, I should have been happy. I wish it could've been different. I can't imagine another ending would have been possible, and that makes me sad.
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