Can we be done with the end of the world?
I don’t mean the song. That’s twenty-five years old and still awesome.
I mean the doomsday prophecies. It’s 12/21/12, the day that some people decided would be the end of the world because it was the end of the Mayan calendar (as so many have already said, my calendar ends every year). I’m twenty-five years old too, but I’m already tired of the people claiming that the world is going to end on such and such a date just because somebody who couldn’t predict the downfall of their own civilization said that it would. I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve lived through “the end” just during my lifetime. Can we just all agree to stop claiming that we know what’s going to happen? The uncertainty of life is part of what makes it so beautiful. We have a (still relatively) beautiful planet that’s going to keep on spinning. We have so many things to explore and learn and see, but if we stop living each day just because we think that things are about to end, we waste so much potential. Just be happy.
The Swords of the Ancients 
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I don’t know if that’s even possible for humans. We have this innate desire to look forward to cataclysmic events. Is it a wonder many Americans stockpiled canned goods, water and weapons specifically for today? On the bright side…we’re still here. And, I’m with you. Enough of this 12/21/12.
Amen to that, this is nonsense. Besides, the calendar has been adjusted so many times that how could anyone hope to predict anything accurately? If it were to happen at all, it would probably happen on the most unexpected and ordinary day. Just because the numbers make a pretty pattern doesn’t mean anything.