What if all this was to come to an abrupt end on Friday?This is predicted in a calender, devised by a wise and ancient people, who sometimes, used substances to make them think they were birds and animals and weren't adverse to ripping beating hearts out of people. That aside, if this was definitely the end of the world as we indeed know it, what would they put in "The Earth's top 100 moments"?
Would they do another one about the worst (insert number here ) moments? Would they have enough time?
Which one would be on after the X Factor? Is that still on ?
Who would host such a thing...? Some generic twenty something presenter . One of the multi-skilled multi-purpose one size fits all ones we have a cluster of now. Imagine ending your days to the accompaniment of grinning, inane mediocrity. Most fitting for the bland years we in the west have chained ourselves to of late.
No that's no way to end. Turn off your Televisions and go outside. Greet the end of this broken, fragile,nonsensical, harsh, bitter-sweet, wonderfully, wonderfully colourful fucked up world we've been clinging too for the last 200,000 years and , if you're lucky enough to find a clear evening, stand beneath the stars and look up. Look and realise something. They, depending on your views on reality, will still be there afterwards. Those distant cold glints of blue, red and white will still go on regardless of whether we see the next day or not . After The Earth has stopped smoking, The Universe may well settle down and carry on its slow,steady journey to entropy.
It may well be the fate of us all..
Don't be sad my fellow travellers in times and spaces.Be heartened by the possibility that only one of the endless versions of you is coming to its end. The others may feel it, as we all do from time to time when something comes through. Don't feel affronted because you're the version about to meet an unfair and unwanted end, at the mercy of flaming chunks of rogue planet or such. Be at peace. Technically, they're all you. Even if some of them are living the lives you really wanted to.
Lets face it,it'll probably be fine so we can go on and keep doing things to each other because of religion, politics, greed and all the other man made foolishness we enjoy. Of course, we will be able to do it via our smartphones and in ever increasingly higher definition.
Go outside and look at them anyway. They are endlessly beautiful.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year?
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