Oh, and the end of the world. Forgot about that. Sigh.
Ok, so when everyone wakes up Saturday morning and
everything is still there and we go on about our business as usual, I’ll be
sad. Because it will be business as
usual. There will be no great revelations
by the masses. There will be no savior to
suddenly appear and help us all get our shit together. It’ll just be us, like it was yesterday and
the day before, looking at each other, waiting for someone else to do something
to make the world a better place.
I was fortunate enough to have an acquaintance a few years
ago whose fascination with the Mayan theory of the end of the world led him to
do a massive amount of research into it.
Apparently the Mayans were able to chart dates back for thousands of
years with complete accuracy, noted celestial happenings that the rest of the
world didn’t even notice, and managed to predict solar and lunar eclipses far
into what was their future. So the
calendar ending is something a lot of folks looked at as a prediction of the
end of time and, logically following that through, the end of the world. Well,
not so much.
It is the end of A time, not all time. Mayans measured time in various units, some
that encompassed thousands of years. It
just so happens that we are at the end of a cycle of time called a baktun or a
long count (7,886 years). And you know
what happens when one ends? Another one
begins.
Ok, so there may be some celestial things going on, too – I’m
not real up-to-date on all of that. But
that doesn’t mean everything is going to come crashing down around us. Hell, I’d be thrilled to see some real change
in this world, but I’m not holding my breath.
The only thing I really can do is change myself.
So back to the holidays.
I like the time off. I like
getting to see my boys for more than ten minutes at a time. I really dislike all the pressure to SPEND!
SPEND! SPEND! That’s just
ridiculous. Seriously, if all these “war
on Christmas” people were really concerned with having their holiday taken
away, shouldn’t they stop contributing to the commercialization of it?
Maybe that’s what will come to an end – the insane need to
overspend and buy crap that will be broken or abandoned within the week.
I’m gonna go spend some time with my boys, before it all
comes crashing down on us.
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