A look back at Sep. 11th 2001 and the importance of looking for valuable lessons and understanding during tough times in life.

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Tragedy isn't.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Unlike our normal, regularly scheduled program, this is not necessarily going to be the fun and laughter time, but I want to hit on something very serious that goes along with the serious attitude.

So today, I'm recording this September 11th 2021. This is 20 years past the original date, have one of the worst losses of life all at one time of civilians in the United States ever, possibly in the world, all at once, in a very short span of time, lost over 3000 civilians in an act of war.

At the time, I remember was a very clear understanding that a lot of people referred to it as a tragedy right away and wanted to kind of wallow in the woe is us how horrible and it was horrible. And it should be recognized that it's horrible.

But in the same end, it's a call to action. And there comes those points in your life, whether it's a world-changing situation, like September 11, was whether you're old enough to remember it or not.

There are these world-changing situations that can hit you hard. And then there are personal situations that hit you hard, I'm going to talk about two of them real quick.

The first one happened to me earlier in the year 2000. And I had just recently moved away from town away from my family, a good three hours away…two and a half, three hours, and was off on my own going to college for the first time.

Through a whole series of events that I've discussed before. There was a huge mix-up with the people that I thought were going to be joining me and all these future endeavors that we had all got flushed down the toilet pretty quickly.

Now what ended up happening out of that is I found myself in a town that I really didn't want to be and going to a school I really didn't want to go to, for a degree I really didn't want, for a future that was quite unknown to me at the time that I thought had I had figured out previously.

But everything kind of went down the toilet and so I was left with a scenario.

It was a call to action.

But I knew that there was a reason why I was there at that point at that time. And because of that scenario, I came in contact with somebody through a very thin thread and changed my life very quickly.

This is a six-month period that I happen to be in this one spot work in this one particular job when a complete stranger came up and change my life. Fast forward a little bit, and not long after that, a few months later, I ended up moving to Sacramento, California. And ended up going in a new direction, trying out some new things.

My world had been rocked but I wasn't quite sure to what extent ended up working in the tallest building in Sacramento, which at that time may still be I'm not sure the Wells Fargo building, downtown Sacramento and having a blast having, a very good time doing something very new, working in a very different environment for one of the largest law firms in all Sacramento and having a really good time and then and really not knowing what was next.

I had a past, I had ideas of what things I could do, but not really sure where to take it next. Then September 11 happened one morning. I was used to waking up a little later in the day.

Because I had a job that didn't require me to be in super early I w...