The Make Yourself record offered a sense of freedom and finding yourself at a time that couldn’t have been more appropriate. Los Angeles-based rock band, Incubus, was a huge part of my college soundtrack (still is), and I don’t mean background noise at a keg party. The only communication back home was via AOL Instant Messenger. Classes were canceled for days, there were support groups arranged and mass transportation from the university to the city was shut down until further notice. But regardless of where you were, nobody could really go anywhere. Everybody has a story about that day and mine was similar to many other’s where I just wanted to be home. That’s where my family was, except for my sister who was living in Manhattan. But I’m from Northern New Jersey, a stone’s through from Manhattan. I was a junior in college, living on campus in the outskirts of Boston. It’s a day and subject that will always be near impossible to put to words. Even for a 21-year-old in college, was it the right thing to do? Was it the right time to go do something enjoyable?īy now, you have probably figured out that the date I am referencing was exactly one week after the horror of September 11, 2001. You see, it was the first time anyone left the house/dorm/apartment/campus. There was something so cathartic about having a sea of people in a still movement, occupying a city block yet remaining inaudible.Ībout an hour prior, we were all inside the Avalon where Incubus frontman, Brandon Boyd encouraged everyone to focus on the word “unity”. The entire crowd of almost 2,000 people just congregated in the middle of Boston’s Lansdowne Street – and nobody really said a word. September 18, 2001: Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear. Photo by Jena Ardell Whatever Tomorrow Brings
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