I awoke a citizen of the world. I shall go to sleep an American.

I awake this morning more level headed. Yesterday was crazy. Everyone was crazy.

I felt weirdly patriotic last night. Something I really haven't ever felt. I still love the world, and feel a part of it. I think the solution can only be found by the world working together. I don't know what it was. Everything was just so surreal, including myself. Today, as I awake, everything seems real again.

Maybe I love my country a little more than I did before, but I'm not about to go waving a flag in the street. It doesn't mean I've become apathetic to the causes I believe in.

Some people think loving your country, even a little, is wrong or somehow stupid. A little patriotism is a good thing. It's what holds a country together. What yesterdays events did was show many of those who didn't realize they had any patriotism in themselves that they did.