I was going to put off writing this blog until tomorrow, but then again it might just be too late...
For Wednesday the twelfth of the twelfth two thousand and twelve is a day when anything might happen - including the end of the world!
Of course, that's only if you are a pessimist and I'm very much an optimist (as well as a fan of hyperbole, as my hoards of good friends will tell you.) Besides, people have been predicting the end of the world ever since - well - ever since time began.
Interestingly, it will be another 88 years before all three numbers in the date are the same (thats 01.01. 2101 if you want to put it on your calendar.)
But if all is well and you're reading this on Thursday morning, please don't get too complacent. In just a couple of weeks' time, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, we will be facing the apocolypse anyway. This time 21.12.2012 is the day of reckoning.
A 'rotating calendar of stone,' the Mayan calendar was not so much an almanac, but a 'gauge of the evolution of consciousness.' No doubt before social networking, and the invention of His 'n' Hers calendars,this was the only way of telling what your friends and family had got planned..
I have always believed that we all worry too much about the past, the present and the future. They all exist of course, but not always in the same order.
It's a pity George Orwell isn't still with us. I'm sure he'd have a few timely things to say about the end of the world.
