I was reading an interview of someone from NASA yesterday. It was frightening to read that this guy receives about 20 emails a day from all parts of the globe from the people who genuinely believe that the world is going to end on 21st December, 2012 – like the woman who asked him if she should kill her 2 daughters and herself or the woman who wondered if she should kill her dog to spare him suffering later. What is the world coming to these days?

Leave aside all facts supporting and opposing this whole hoopla. At the bare minimum logic level, there are 2 possibilities – with a 50-50 chance. One is that the world will not go up with a bang in 2012. So here we are on the morning of 22nd December, 2012, all ready to party – because the day happens to be a Saturday and also because the world didn’t end. This is a Happy Day scenario and no one in his or her right mind would want to end it all now when there is at least 50% chance of us all waking up to this day.

Now on to the grim one – that the world will indeed cease to exist after 21st December. It’s not going to happen in just one or two countries. If at all it is going to happen, it will happen all over the planet. So there probably isn’t much that you, me or even the President of the United States of America can do to avoid this – except to live whatever time is left for us to the fullest extent possible. Life is no bed of roses for most of us but doesn’t it make sense to spend whatever time we all have in finding more roses than thorns? Let’s use this so-called Judgement Day for bringing about positive change in our lives – laugh more, take that long-dreamt-of vacation, eat more ice-cream, watch more sunsets, listen to more songs and sing along even if off-key, read more books and so on. If at all we are going out, let’s go out with a bang folks!

And please give some credit to the brightest ones amongst us – the scientists! Who knows, by the time 2012 rolls over they would have figured out a way to avoid it all :-)