Verklempt

I saw Come from Away the other day.
Going into it, I knew what it was about.
How a small town of Gander, Nfld took in about 7000 passengers into their town of about 9000 ppl and gave them all shelter and food and shared their hospitality during such a horrific time in history.

I still remember exactly where I was when I heard about the towers being attacked.
It was my first year of working in my profession in a small town of Paris, ON and my 10:00am patient came in and sat down and said "so we are in for another war, they have attacked the states."
I thought he was joking because of the nonchalant way in which this patient said it. He told me it was on the news and it just happened not long ago.
After I was finished the appointment I went out to the common room of the Palliative care Hospital where some staff were gathering just in a daze of shock. There was a tv there with images of the burning towers.....
I was living alone in Brantford, and my close friends and family were in Toronto. All I could think of was calling everyone of them to make sure they were ok and tell them that I loved them. Of course they were ok but I just had the need to hear their voices. It was sooooo eerie driving back to Toronto Thursday night, like I always did, except the night sky was clear of any planes... not a single spot of one.

Right from the beginning of this play, even though it was mixed with the lightheartedness of the Nfld folk characters, I was getting pretty Verklempt. And my eyes welled up a few times, even though the scenes were predicable. Just to see it and imagine how it was back then for everyone.
The thought of the capacity of humanity to work together to comfort each other and care for each other regardless of religion, and nationality and communicating regardless of language differences and finding a common connection....
This capacity is there, in our nature, I'm in wonder why we don't just express this all the time to everyone, not just in times of tragedy and crisis.

Yep, this was me during most of that play....

Mike Meyers, Coffee Lady. SNL