The day that changed everything...

My son is almost fourteen months and he my world. I look back as most of us do around this time of year what life would have been like if the "9/11/2001" never happened. I was affected by the ripples of that day, I was working at a engineering firm in Kansas City, MO and was planning on becoming an architect, that was the plan. I was single and enjoying paying my bills I has raked up in college and just being around friends. But that day did happen and my "plan" had to be scrapped.

November 2011, I was let go since the company had no work to give and too many employees. I was one of the new ones, so I was on that short list. I don' blame them they had to do what they had to do. I was jobless for the fist time since I was 16. For three months I survived on credit cards then found a job with a telecommunications giant. I thought I was good I can still follow the plan. Well that only lasted eight months.

Went home and mom suggested I go back to school and become a teacher, I figured why not. The new plan was teacher for a few years than move on with the original plan. As many of you know the plan I follow is no longer the same one I had in college.

Teaching brought me to St. Louis, MO 4 hours away from my folks and brothers. I had friends here which worked fine, sure I go home sick but who doesn't. The plan changed when well teaching was become more rewarding than I had anticipated. I actually like to go to work, there are a few days that I did not but hey it happens. From here I knew the plan was still in the back of my head, but it was on hiatus. Then everything changed when I met my wife.

I technically met here years earlier and found my self starring at her when I was with a girl I was dating at the time. There was just something about her that caught my eye. A couple of years later we were both single and well the rest is history.

Last year we had our son and life has been different ever since. I see things now that I did not before and feel things for what people go through when I watch the "9/11" specials. The people that died that day, some where the same age as me, will never experience what I experience when I look at my son. I look at my son and his smile knowing that we are still the center of his world and he will always be mine. I will never forget! It changed my life and the rest of us forever.