September 11, 2020
Fri, 9/11 11:56AM 6:03
Hey, how's it going today and welcome back to the podcast if it's your first time. Thanks for
joining us if it's you're more than first time, thanks for joining us. We are, this is digital Zen and
Scott Goldman and I just want to kind of give you a quick recap on myself on the digital marketer,
I own video production company, and I've been involved with digital marketing for the last few
years. Hence the name Zen Digital's is my company and digital Zen is the podcast, like to talk
about most things digital and most things oriented towards content creation, etc. Stuff like that.
But today, I'm gonna take a little bit of a diversion because Today is September 11. And I wanted
to kind of talk a little bit about September 11, and my own personal thoughts that the significance
of the day is getting a little bit lost. These days. I remember when September 11 happened. I used
to be in the financial industry back in 2001. And I had trained in right across the street from the
Twin Towers for about a month. And every day I was in the Twin Towers and up there at Cantor
Fitzgerald at the top of the tower exactly where the planes went. And I don't know if you're one of
those people who has conspiracy theory or whether it's real theory or anything on how
September 11 happened. But certainly the story that's been perpetuated, whether it's true or not,
doesn't really matter at this point, I guess it does to a degree but not for the sake of my story. But
I was sitting in my my office, drinking some coffee, and all of a sudden I saw the first tower on fire.
And I couldn't believe it. You know, as a kid, I was I grew up in that area. I watched them actually
build those towers. So it's really kind of a crazy thing for me to watch in horror, as people were
jumping out of this building, trying to escape the carnage that was going on inside. And forgetting
even the significance of the act itself. One of the things I try to remember and I try to keep
present to on September 11, is the effect that it had on the people in the building. Because
regardless of what you feel about who did it or, you know, if you believe the official narrative, or if
you believe some of the other conspiracies, and I'm not leaning one way or the other, I have my
own personal thoughts on the matter. But once again, it's not relative to the story, because the
people inside those buildings, experienced what they experienced and experienced that horror.
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And there's no denying that. I mean, imagine not being able to To know if you're going to get
home to your loved ones, not I mean, the horror of wondering what happened and the world was
watching. And not only people in the in the tower. I actually got back from the town I got back
from New York about a week and a half before that actually happened. And that was in the
financial services industry, as I said, so all of a sudden, we got the call from New York and from
everywhere that our offices were shut in everybody go home immediately. I was already home I
had, you know, as I said, I was watching that and I didn't go into the office, but I did get the call
that everybody has to go home and shut the officers down. Because no one knew what was going
to happen. No one knew, you know, the, the level of insecurity that we might have been or what
the danger level was because certainly they attack the financial center. So no one really knew
what that was like. All I know is that at the end of the day, by the The day there was a unity in this
country in the United States that was far beyond anything imaginable. And when we shut down
for those couple of days as a country, there was no more politics, there was no more anything
other than the shock. And the love that existed between people and between people, whether
they were the same whether they were different, no matter what color no matter what race, no
matter what belief, no matter anything. And it was just something that it's a shame didn't extend
longer than it is because now if you look at the country, and and we're so divided, whether you
hate Trump, whether you love Trump, whether you hate Biden, go ahead with you know, whatever
your political positioning is, we're such we're such a polarized country at this point, that on a day
like today
what To teach my son and what I you know what I try to believe in my, in my heart and in my life
is we're all people. We're all we're all brothers. We're all sisters, we're all relatives, we all come
from the same species. So on a day like September 11, I think it's really, really important to take
stock of what's important. And what's important is behind, have gratitude. Doesn't matter what
stage in life you are, whether you're rich, whether you're poor, whether you're Republican, whether
you're Democrat, whether you're any of those things, whatever religion you are, we are all human
beings, and at our core, we are the same. Live with gratitude, live with happiness. Bless one
another, and
enjoy your day. I'll see you tomorrow.
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