2012

earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, red tide poisoning, asteroids, hurricanes, riots, famine, mass murders....oh wait that is this year...

a mayan calendar is supposedly ending...astrological events are occurring...doomsayers are dooming us...new agers speak of a cosmic shift...and i think many folks just hope something happens that will take us out of all this craziness and into a more rational and more compassionate way of dealing with our lives...

some may feel like their own life may end in 2012...well i can foresee deaths...there will most certainly be those who die...but most will live...just like this year...and i can also say with certainty countless of us, myself included, will be dead...seventy years from now...

there are things you can control and drive yourself crazy about even but death?...it will get you and you have no control over it...oh you can postpone it...you can become absorbed with taking care of yourself...giving yourself a handful more years...maybe...if the proverbial bus doesnt hit you or a microscopic parasite doesnt take you down...you might be one of those folks who gets a fuss made about them for living to be a hundred and five and can still hold a half decent conversation with others between naps...

look at it...how much time do you spend fighting off death?...probably the same amount of time you extended your life i bet...what would happen if you spent an entire month living like you were dying?...like it was the end of the world...what values would shift for you?...would loved ones mean more?...would possessions mean less?...would you have that piece of cake without worrying about calories?...would you sit and watch a sunset rather than workout at the gym?...would you do that one thing you always wanted to do but never took the time to do?...would you say i love you more?...hold your lovers hand as you sat together?...fill your bedroom with flowers?...stand in the rain?...what would you do?

the world is ending...lets say it...you and i...our world is coming to an end...heck maybe mine will end in a month...you never know...what will i do with the last month of my life? what would you do?...and would you be happy to live on after that month?...after you let go and finally lived the kind of life you had dreamed of?

how about it? enter bizarro world with me...live like you are dying...so you can die like you are living...