11/11/2026
Today at 11am mum and I were at Chermside. The shopping Centre had started announcing half an hour prior, and kept announcing leading up to it - at 11am please join us in remembering, they continued these up to 3 mins before.
So at 11 we found ourselves out the front of DJ’s. We stopped , like 99.5% of people, and paid our respects after the last post and the minute silence.
What I could’ve believe / is there were people walking past us, as if nothing was happening…..
I was so angry - confused, why?? These people were just shoppers like we were. What was so important that they kept going about their business?
I can understand if someone was in a work
situation where they couldn’t stop, but these people weren’t, they were shopping.
So my question and reason for the post is to ask, can someone explain to me why? Why would you not stop, and walk past all these people who were stopped and not think, ummmm maybe I should stop and show my respect...
