A lot of people want to remember today as the anniversary of 9/11. They want to mourn, reflect and feel as the wash of remembrance pours over them.

Which is fine. It’s good, healthy (to a point) and needed for some.

All I ask is that while you pay homage to those you’ve lost, people who’ve lost other people and other tragedy today you do so with your own emotions.

A lot of people will be using today to push an agenda. they will give speeches and try to rally people behind them. They will all use your emotions and your loss toward their own ends. Is that what you want?

Every politician and every media outlet will spend today telling you how you should fell and why and furthermore what you should do about it. Who are they to tell you these things? Who are they to tell you that we, as a country, should now do X and never do Y. That we should give up A and hate B and love C and so on.

They don’t care about what you are going through, or how you deal with your own mind. They are in it for their own agenda and nothing more. You will hear how 9/11 links to one thing or another, how because of it we must do various things that, when looked at logically, make no sense.

You want to do the memory of the thousands of people who lost their lives right? Don’t let their deaths be turned into a bullet point on an index card waiting for a speech to use and abuse their memory to serve someone else’s goal.

Take it all with an extra large grain of salt today. Don’t let the justifications blind you to the seething opportunity that sits happily behind each impassioned plea for action.

Think, and feel, for yourself.