A quarter-century later, 9/11 still feels like yesterday
It has been twenty-five years since the world shifted on its axis.
It is wild to think a whole generation has grown up knowing September 11 only as a history lesson or a somber day of scrolling through archival feeds. We are now at the quarter-century mark, and the ceremonies at New York and the Pentagon feel less like a modern news cycle and more like the defining scar of our modern timeline.
Seeing the same photos cycle through feeds every year hits differently when the calendar confirms that this really was that long ago. The gravity of the day remains, but the distance is starting to feel surreal.
Time has a funny way of turning raw, screaming trauma into a historical chapter that everyone is still trying to figure out how to process.
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