9-11 diary entry

September 9 2001

                Today I decided to start keeping track of every event that happens to me in a journal. Today naturally I woke up this morning feeling very tired; you see I was at the office until eleven o’ clock. I am very busy all hours of the day, I barley have time for my kids and its starting to affect our relationship. I left for work today at seven forty-five, and arrived at the first world trade center tower at eight thirty. Today I had to create a spreadsheet for my own budget here at the company. It was an extraordinarily difficult task, if I didn’t complete by the time I left I would have fallen behind majorly.

September 10 2001

                Today I woke up with a sort of headache, my head was throbbing and I just wanted to stay home but yet again I would have fallen very far behind. My wife and children are starting to become very distant to me and I am beginning to feel slightly depressed, I’ve been spending way to long at work and they are becoming anxious and agitated. I really didn’t have to do much today at the office, except be my bosses little errand runner. He assigns me so many nitpicky tasks and I feel that if I don’t stand up to him soon I could end up losing my family. At least tonight I got home by nine o’ clock instead of eleven o’ clock.

September 11 2001

                Today I was late for work by about ten minutes, because some careless driver decided to run into the rear end of the car in front of me. Its times like these that if more people paid attention on the road traffic wouldn’t get clogged up. I really am starting to not enjoy my time at the office; the days are getting longer and longer. Today was the day my life changed, I was 10 floors below the floor that got hit by an airplane, I was lucky to be alive they made us come down the stairs and evacuate the building, while doing so I realized that I wasn’t the only one unhappy. There were many people that had more severe cases of sadness than I do. There was one man whose wife was above the crash site meaning she was trapped, and there was nothing anyone could do to help her. The only thing that man could do is to pray to the gods that some miracle will happen to those unlucky souls.

September 12 2001

                Yesterday I made it safely out of the building and I got home to my wife and kids they were so blessed to see me alive. We all could not contain the tears from this national tragedy and the great happiness that I was alive; I have to go to the hospital today for a checkup, to see if I’m injured. Luckily I am not injured. I won’t be going back to work for a very long time.