The beginning of the end

They say the world is ending. Whether the apocalypse really happens, only the day can tell, but here’s what we can do, with this theory . Use it as a disclaimer rather than a deathclock

The Mayans viewed 'time' and 'dates' as meshing   spiritual cycles. The Mayan calendar was sacred and religious, each day had it's own patron spirit.  However the Mayan grand cycle of evolution will culminate on December 21, 2012 AD- The 2012 Apocalypse. This time now has many nicknames "The Time of Trial on Earth," "Judgement Day," "The Time of Great Purification," "The End of this Creation," "The Quickening," "The End of Time as We Know It," "The Shift of the Ages," "The Apocalypse" and "Armageddon" , even stretched as far as Doomsday.  This is one way we look at it. As a warning, there’s however another side to this coin – A disclaimer.

What if it were official  , as they say ‘right from the Mayans mouth’. The bulletins flash it in bright red, the newspapers scream them out – The world is really ending, You got roughly ten days to go before your entire spaced it wiped off , in one big whoosh. What would you do? Carry on , with life like you’ve been doing all your life?  Go back to  balancing your chequebook or doing the laundry  or running after the Mumbai local that has to get you to work. Or would you follow the Nicholas Sparks clichés and start building your bucket list ?  Many of us would be nodding sagely at the prospect of building a bucket list and ticking them off even before the news bulletin has wiped itself off the screen.

Have we ever stopped to consider that perhaps, this whole idea of the World ending is merely a disclaimer thrown king-size at our lives  warning us to take a breather , before the mad rush of 2013 begins? Food for thought indeed , because unless such a preposterous thought as the world actually ending is thrown at us, we’d forget to live !

Imagine that today was doomsday as they call it – 21/12/2012. You and I would make sure we wake up early , catch the morning sunrise and soak up the rays , sipping this huge mug of expresso , we’d visit our friends, make time to reach out to our boyfriend , say our sorries to our Exs and enemies,  take a picnic to the beach , spend an idle afternoon watching trashy films off the telly ,  have a nice candlelit dinner , and then tuck ourselves into bed , waiting… waiting for what? The next day, the sun will rise and we’ll grudgingly look at each other and exclaim that the world did not end , and accuse the Mayan calendar for making false prophecies and allowing you a fun day with your family. And that is a terrible accusation indeed because if not for the ‘schizophrenic ‘ paranoid Mayans , 21^st December 2012 , which falls on a Friday would be spent chasing your morning train to work , straining your eyes and spraining your backside hunched over a laptop, having screaming fits with your partners , skipping dinner and stomping off to bed , hoping the world would really end and gobble you up. Pretty pathetic isn’t it? Now that we take a breather and think , isn’t this how our average day is ?  is’nt that how we spend every 264 days of of a year , sparing only the few hours before new years eve , toasting in ‘new beginnings’ and vowing to have a ‘memorable year’?

Maybe its time we stopped fearing doomsday , and christening it – the beginning of an end – the beginning of ending your woes, and giving a real fun day with people who matter to you. Take a walk, stop to breathe , grab a donut , feed a dog and thank the Mayans who would probably scare the CEO’s of the MNC’s into giving you an off on  a Friday. And to those of you who’s still skeptical about this insanely thought provoking theory , how about starting on your bucket list ? Maybe the world might just end , and you’d have missed the best day of your life just because you were too cynical to believe in the magic of a make believe bucket list.

With 20 days  to go and counting , we need to take this day as the beginning of an end to all our ‘tomorrows’ and ‘Laters’ and believe in the magic of today. Pre-pone your happiness , make today the best day in your life and live it like it were your last – for tomorrow just might never come. J