9:19 am

It was 8 years ago at this minute that my mother called my cell, woke me up on my only late class day of the week and told me to get out of my dorm room twin sized bed and look out my over sized window. There they were, running for their lives. The television went on, the footage repeated the actions that had happened less then an hour ago. The world changed, Manhattan changed and it felt like my surroundings turned in circles for days following. My thoughts are with those who lost loved ones, those who volunteered their hands, time and lives on that day and even to those who were too shocked to figure out how.