9.30 a.m. I was woken up by a phone call from my friend. His voice was trembling. He asked me to turn on the TV to watch the news of the World Trade Center was being attacked by the terrorists.

This twin tower was still fresh in my memory because I just visited last week. I still remembered it was the place that reminded me of the movie Wall Street and Working Girls. The building was so crowded and people walked so fast that it was my first time in my life that I felt like I was lost in the human sea.

When I heard that horrible news, I could not believe my ears; I wish I was dreaming.
My soul was shaken when I saw two planes crashing the building. I cried when I saw the pictures of people running away from death, some were desperately jumping off the building. I sobbed when I’d heard that there might be at least 5,000 innocent people were perished from this horrible incident.
I was furious as I was watching the news. I’d like to revenge and make whoever commit it pay this inhumane action with their low life. I asked myself what motivated those terrorists to commit such an inhumane action. I tried to find the answer in every way I could. Finally, I came to the conclusion that they were just plainly coward. Honorable warriors do not kill innocent lives but coward terrorists do.

Because of their blind faith and sacrifice, they might be praised as a hero among their cult followers. However, in my eyes, they were a gang of coward people who had killed a lot of innocent and helpless people who had nothing to do with those ideological conflicts.
I fell down on my knee and prayed. I asked myself: How many children had lost their parent? How many children had been left without anyone picking them up after school? How many people had lost the head of family? What were they going to do next to survive?

I was crying because I did realize how terrible of losing someone I loved.
The best way to revenge is to pray for them and live our life normally. We have to show them that we will never give up hope. We will always have faith in peace and we will spread this hope around us.
I’m praying for those who have been perished and I’m praying for those who have committed it.
May gods lay hand on those innocent people’s eyes and lead them to the peaceful place.

May gods make those terrible people wake up from those illusions.

 

Tae (Kriengsak Athikomvittaya)