All kinds of news are appearing lately about the end of the world. Sadly for us imaginative types, most of the pieces are just a list of reasons why the world isn’t going to end on December the 21st. And, as much as I understand the need to calm some people down, I can’t help but feel it would be a lot more fun to read some cover story that went like “Doomsday coming, humanity condemned.”
There would be many advantages to a premature end of the world. For once, we could stop worrying about global warming. Once we were gone, CO2 emissions would instantly cease and animals would be very happy, except maybe for dogs, cows and cats, which would be thrown back into a wild world with no protectors – us – to take care of them.
Another great advantage, for me at least, is I could stop worrying about my retirement or the economic crisis. Heck, I would just spend my money in something incredibly absurd and then wait things out with my family. It would be intense and scary, for sure. But also exciting. How many doomsdays have you seen in your lifetime? Probably not many so far. It is a unique experience. Worth telling your grandkids about if, well, the world didn’t end.
So let’s panic a bit. Let’s say the Mayas did get it right and some planet, which managed to hide from all of our space exploration instruments, is coming this way. That nobody will be safe, no matter where you are and what you believe: an end of the world with survivors is like a party without alcohol. It’s just not the same. Let’s say the planets are aligning and that this fact matters for some reason. That the symphonies of the heaven are singing to our global demise. That all the little schemes, all the ambition, the greed, the little plays for power, all of that will become dust in a heartbeat and be revealed as the pointless waste of time it is.
Let’s imagine the world is coming to an end. Let’s make the most of it. And let’s think for a moment.
What would you do?
David Yerle Wrote. 