Hey there, it's Jonathan.
So over the last 24 hours or so, I have had texts, emails, friends, voice messages from people that I know from around the world actually asking if I'm okay.
The reason is because I live in New York City and we had a terror attack here yesterday.
And I am a longtime New Yorker.
I was here during 911.
I was in the city yesterday.
I have friends in the city.
I am raising a family in the city.
And it's always horrifying to hear things like this, to see things like this on the news, to have experienced large scale things like this in the past.
I was in Vegas a couple of days after what happened there just a month or so ago.
And first, I am okay, my family is okay.
As far as I know, my friends are okay.
Okay in terms of we're physically safe, we weren't involved in anything, emotionally, psychologically okay.
I don't know, it just.
It hits you on so many different levels as a human being who feels the loss and wants to extend sympathy and empathy and, you know, just hold anyone who's affected by this as a husband and a father who lives literally just a few miles from where this happened and is raising a kid in a city who wanders all over, as a New Yorker who is connected to the pulse of this place and the people here, as a human being who just wants to see the suffering stop.
On so many levels, I don't have answers.
I honestly wish I could say, here's what I recommend, here's what to do.
I don't know anymore.
I honestly don't.
And there are people a lot smarter than me, a lot more studied than me, that probably have better advice.