What Does 2012 Mean...

2012 What Does It Mean…

     So many people have been talking about the year 2012 and what it will bring us. There are even shows on television dedicated to talking about it, not to mention a major movie about it. So why so much fuss over the year 2012? Why has this year been so interesting that television and movie writers feel the need to talk about it?

     While I have never been one to believe in Armageddon and prophecy, I have to ask myself why these things are being talked about so much these days. One could say that people have been talking about “the end times” since time began and this is true, but 2012 seems to hold a much tighter grip on so many people. I have spoken with people from all different walks of life and asked them about 2012 and each one of the people I talked to had no problem explaining to me what was supposed to happen in that year. I was even educated about how not only Mayan’s have predicted what is to happen in the year 2012. It seems that talk of 2012 has been seen in the bible and many other books.

     Could 2012 actually be the end of us all? Is it possible that we should be taking things seriously this time? I know from personal experience that I have never once taken any of these doomsday prophecies seriously because people are always coming up with some reason why a specific date and time will be the end, only to find that they were wrong and the date and time they predicted passes and we are all still in the same place as we were before. If we look through history, we can find so many people who have predicted things like this and each one has failed miserably at getting it right.

     Since people never predict these things correctly, should we just brush off the 2012 prediction as yet another failed attempt to scare the public? I’m not so sure. Scientists seem to agree that December 2012 is going to be a time where strange things may happen. One of the more scary things is called the “pole shift” which means that our magnetic poles will switch. North will become South and South will become North and because of this, we could see worldwide earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and terrible weather patterns. They go on to say that we may be hit by some kind of solar energy that could easily knock out power, satellites and pretty much everything we use on a daily basis. Sadly this is the good scenario! The bad scenario is that Earth will just no longer have any life on it because for some reason, in some way, we are going to be wiped out. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to just not have power and cell phone service for awhile instead of the other option.

     So if we are indeed in the “end times” what should we all do? My advice is that we should become nicer people. We all know how cruel this world and the people on it can be. If we are indeed in the final days of civilization as we know it, should we not spend the rest of our time trying to live good lives? It makes sense to me and hopefully it makes sense to you as well. Think about all of the things we do every day. We go to work, come home and cut the grass, take the kids to soccer practice and if we have any time left, we sleep for awhile. We no longer take the time to smell the roses and understand how important our time on Earth is. Now I’m not saying that you should quit your job and stop paying your bills that would be crazy! But what I am saying is that maybe we should do a better job of setting a few extra minutes aside each day to “smell the roses” or to spend a few extra minutes with family.

     If we all begin to do these things and the world doesn’t explode into a billion pieces in 2012, we will have built a new way of living. Living in a way where we treat each other with respect and no longer have to put each other down, being kind to each other for the fact that we are all on this spinning ball together. We are all heading for the same place. Let us hope that 2012 is not real, but just in case, let’s all take a few extra minutes each day to look at the stars and relax a bit.