Dont wait: New Yorkers born on Sept. 11, 2001, have learned extra special life lessons

Even 25 years later, people aren’t quite sure how to reconcile celebration with the sadness of September 11.“It catches people off guard,” Aaren Evans said of her birthday.“I have to sit with them for a moment and let them process it.”More than 150 babies were born in New York’s major hospitals on that day in 2001.

Evans is one of six that The Post met in 2002, as they turned 1, hearing from parents who recalled the emotional rollercoaster of devastation and joy as their children arrived into great uncertainty.“It was such a bittersweet moment,” first-time dad Derek Parks said in 2002 of of his daughter Madison’s birth.“On one hand, this was the happiest day of my life.

Moments later, there was mass destruction.I didn’t know whether to feel guilty about feeling so joyful,” But the kids now say they grasped early on that the way in which they entered the world was meaningful, and insisted they would change nothing.“I feel really honored to represent a good part of a really terrible day,” said Serena Wurmser, named for the serenity she brought her family when she was born at Columbia Presbyterian at 11:13 a.m., less than an hour after the second tower fell.She prefers to think of it as a “serendipitous moment.

I’d never change my birthday.”Nor would Reggi Condos, a lifelong West Village resident.“I have a very special relationship with New York as a city, and 9/11 gave me a different understanding and appreciation of New York,” Condos, a musician who graduated from NYU Tisch last year, told The Post.His mom, Marika Condos, was herself 25 at the time when she gave birth at 9:23 a.m.at New York University Medical Center, and recalls feeling “grateful” that her baby was “a glimmer of hope.“New motherhood is already riddled with unpredictability, but now there was this whole other piece no one had control over,” said Marika.

“I knew I would do everything in my power to keep Reggi safe while not avoiding difficult con...