So this is it, 2012. This is the year when it will all end for us, or we will all get elevated to a higher level of consciousness. I’ve heard some interpret the Mayan calendar to say that this is when “He will come”. And of course, the Presidential election will save or end America as we know it.
So here’s to 2012 being the year of something I sorely lack in my own life – the Year of Certainty. It will once and for all become clear who and what is right in this world. God’s existence will be proven or disproven, especially if the year includes His arrival. Scientists will find the God particle and we will understand why the Universe is here. The election results, whichever way they go, will make America a great country again. Either the free market or socialism will give everyone prosperity, security, and a job. I will finally know what I want to do with my life.
But naturally, none of this will happen. Instead of coming to a swift, graceful end, our existence will continue to plod on. There will be nobody returning to us from the clouds, and nobody at our door. My heart will veer wildly from spirituality to cynicism, depending on how much pain it is in at a given moment. Those damned quarks and anti-quarks will keep doing their own thing. And I’ll keep working at an insurance company because I can’t come up with anything better to do.
Still, I wish everyone a happy doubtful and dithering 2012. To those of you who already have the miracle of Certainty and who know that you are always correct about everything, I envy you. For the rest of us, may the decorations on our tree be funky, our cups of chocolate mint tea steaming hot, our dogs and cats cuddly on our laps, and our blogs controversial. Happy Holidays!
eurobrat 
12/25/2011 at 12:27 am
Bullcrap! It can’t be that awesome! It just can’t!
12/25/2011 at 12:27 pm
Well, I don’t really believe it will be. The above is just wishful thinking 🙂
12/25/2011 at 5:38 pm
A very holly jolly to you brat!
Wouldn’t it be something to be sipping a latte on Dec. 21 next year and to suddenly look up to see the sky crack open – and having just enough time to say “Oh shit!”
12/25/2011 at 5:59 pm
And a holly jolly to you too Moe, I hope your family gathering and food was as enjoyable as mine 🙂
You know I’m into the dramatic, so I would be totally excited to see that happen. I have a sinking feeling that this time next year I’ll be saying “oh shit” for many other reasons, though…
12/27/2011 at 7:42 am
So might we all . . . so might we all.
12/26/2011 at 6:26 pm
Happy and dithering 2012 indeed. I think we’re part of a multi-thousand year collective of folks who have next to zero say about the big picture we’re living under. We’re lucky in that our day to day is our own, generally speaking though we’re still modern peasants, but the machinations of the ebb and flow of the world around us is beyond our reach. It’s a helpless feeling that I think best to simply ignore. Unless you’re a political activist sort of person in which case go all-in.
I’d like to be but it’s not in me, not in that way, so I bury my head and make my own case through art. There’s great futility in everything, but in the moment of making something come to life that never need exist in the first place, even a simple painting, that’s pretty awesome and about as good as it gets. Finding the god particle would probably be better, but I’m no philatelist.
12/27/2011 at 7:08 pm
Oh, I like to pretend that I’m a political activist, but I am not really one either…about the most I will ever do is blog about it. Writing has that ephemeral value — when you’re in the process of writing, you have the feeling that you can change everything. Then you realize, it’s just words.