RE: The Day I Felt My Soul- My entry for @jerrybanfield's Supernatural Writing Contest SWC
I have had a lot of painful experiences that were deep through out my life, until today though I had never put a word to it on how I can relate so deeply with other peoples pain. When reading your story I don't know why but I started thinking about the story of the man who called his family on 9-11 and told them he couldn't leave a man in a wheel chair with no way to get out there alone to die. Think about all the people who didn't even stop to think about what kind of emotional pain this person would have been left to think about in his last moments that no one might have not even stopped to think about him. His very last moments spent thinking about the people who interacted with him on a daily basis, developing what he thought were friendships that bonded them together everyday only to come to the rationalization they'd leave him behind to die and how very deep that must have been for one person to realize what that would have been like for him and stayed there and died with him. That's some really deep thought in empathy. Thank you for sharing that.
Thank you for reading my story and connecting with it. I remember where I was that morning. I was in a bad place in my life and I was drinking and doing drugs. I had stayed up most of the night before and had only fallen asleep an hour before the first plane hit. I was awaken from a deep sleep and started screaming and shaking uncontrollably. I felt a massive amount of pain, fear and agony the likes of which I have not felt since I was a child. And when I finally calmed down I was unable to go back to sleep and I decided to watch television to drown out my thoughts I saw the news. I knew than why I was awaken this way.