Everything Fell Where They May

I can understand the reason why people take a drink or a pill or look to find something that helps them sail beyond the concrete on the sidewalks of New York City.I have been here for as long as I can remember. However, I have moved around from the Eastside, Westside, Uptown and as my life has turned, I am currently Downtown.I work across the street from Ground Zero which is the spot where The Towers used to stand. I am here at work more days than I am not here, which is how life goes when it comes to being an adult.I look out from a big window on the 15th floor from my place of business and I look downward and see the memorial pools where the buildings used to stand. It amazes me how people at my place of employment had yet to be born when The Towers went down.I had yet to be born yet too, which is not to say that I was not alive or around at the time of September 11, 2001.No, I was very much alive and yet, I had yet to understand what it means to live.I failed myself.I gave up a…