Learning from 9.11:
: Mario Cuomo, from an outake of Ric Burns’ show about the World Trade Center, to be on PBS Monday:
9/11, how can you possibly use it for good purpose? You think about it. You’d think, as was suggested before, you’d think about: Look, what this reminds you of is the importance of your own life, and making the most of it, because you can lose it in a flash. And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you what to do with your life, but it will teach you to do with your life, and to do it more and quicker and better. And that can be extremely valuable. It’s had that effect on me.
If only.
