I know folks feel like things are so bad that it had to be true! The world is so messed up that it just simply had to be coming to an end.
I get it. We all feel that way at some point. But here is what you have to do to get past that feeling and put things into perspective.
Think about what we as human beings have already endured and what the planet has endured and take comfort in the fact that we are still here!
We have theoretical evidence that Earth was one a giant snowball for example and yet here we are!
The earth is pockmarked with Craters.... and yet here we are !
The planet, and all it's living creatures, including humanity have always been under attack from the Universe and extreme weather and disease and war and so on...
Yet life goes on.... :)
We can't be afraid to LIVE
We can't be so afraid that we stop moving forward. We have to continue to learn and grow. Life is hard. It always has been and always will be. You can not escape that. So what you do instead of living in fear, is put one foot in front of the other and keep going until the day comes you can't take another step. People have lived through hell and so has the planet. Yet here we are!
In the process of living your life, you have learned so many things and whether directly or indirectly, you have also taught what you have learned to others. We, as a race, now benefit from your life experiences. The cycle of life continues from generation to generation, century to century and moves forward, even when we have problems.
Problems are not stop signs, they are obstacles. And obstacles can be overcome!
So when the next "apocalyptic prediction" rears it's ugly head, take a deep breath and keep moving forward. Don't let the people who use fear as a way to control you ... well... control you.
The most effective way to control someone is to instill fear into their hearts and minds and then tell them you are the one who will protect them. It's a con, one that has been around since the dawn of man. We are smarter then that now, and therefore less people will fall for it. And the fact that the world did not end on December 21st, 2012, as predicted, should be all the proof anyone needs that it was a con. If it's not proof for you, then you have some growing to do yet. At best it was a mistake in the interpretation of the Mayan Calendar. Either way, all you needed was a little perspective to know it would be okay.
When the world comes to an end some day and we know it will cause the sun itself can't last forever, take comfort in the fact that it's just the way the Universe works and somewhere somehow, it will all begin new again.
Science tells us that energy is never lost, it just transforms.
Life is a ride and you have to hang on really really tight sometimes... sometimes you coast along and sometimes you fly off the rails and crash ....
