2012: SO Not the End

So the world is supposed to end next year. That's not really something you hear everyday, that you can just brush off (even though I have been brushing it off for the past couple years since the rumor started). So I finally decided to go out on a ledge and find out WHY people have been making such a big deal about it.

Apparently NASA is the go-to source for all this "end of the world" info. They have a whole Q&A section just for 2012 on their website. People want to know why the world is ending. Most of the questions are related to the following:

• the end of the Mayan calendar
• a planet, discovered by the Sumerians thousands of years ago, named Nibiru, Eris, or Planet X (that's my favorite) is hurling towards Earth and will collide with it next December
• the Earth being hit by some random meteor (Deep Impact, anyone?)
• giant solar storms

NASA pretty much concludes that the Earth is, in fact, NOT ending, by thoroughly and logically answering these questions. They compare the Mayan calendar to our yearly calendar: the world doesn't end on December 31, when our calendar ends... so why should it be any different with the Mayan's calendar? They also state that no planets or meteors are on the agenda to collide with us, and giant solar storms are also not on the list. They have GOT to be sick of repeating themselves to all the nutjobs who continue to come up with different scenarios of planets and other miscellaneous space rocks colliding with Earth.

And now that you're bored to death with my findings on 2012, here's a video I found that was kinda funny, featuring some predictions that are more likely to happen next year... 12 Amazing 2012 Predictions <---click!

BUT WHAT IF the world really did end? Maybe not next December, but in five years? 10? 20? 50? As this thought rolled through, around, inside and out of my mind, I began to wonder to myself, "WHAT DO I WANT TO DO BEFORE THIS 'END'??" So I made a list. And here it is:

• See the Northern lights
• Travel to every continent (yes, including Antarctica!)
• Get married (to Danny, of course!)
• Have kids (I'm kinda iffy on that one, because if you knew the world was ending, would you really want to bring kids into it, just to be sucked right out again?? Then again, that sounds like the perfect life... being a kid with not a care in the world, being able to experience all the fun things in life for free, and then shooting straight up to heaven before being corrupted by this world...)
• Drive across the country, coast to coast
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• See Vanessa Carlton LIVE

I'm really terrible of thinking of things to do (obviously). But my point is, that we don't know when the world is going to end. We don't know when we are going to die. So LIVE!! If you want to climb the tallest mountain in the world, DO IT. If you want to travel to every country in the world, DO IT. If you want to roll around in a room full of cats, DO IT.

Shannon, out.