I'm Welcoming the "End of the World"

   Dear fellow humans and citizens of Earth,


December 21st is almost here, the end is nigh! Have you made your provisions? Have you planned  for the inevitable? The signs are everywhere, they can no longer be denied! If the Orioles winning 93 games and the Redskins making a playoff push aren't proof enough for you--how do you explain the Wizards beating the Lebron James and the Miami Heat!? Go ahead, bury your head in the sand!

Who am I kidding? My wife Meghan won't even take this seriously. With no regard for the impending cataclysm, she's busy buying Christmas gifts, humming Christmas songs, and decorating the house in a festive decor with nary a hint of the apocalypse. I even overheard her making beach plans for the summer of 2013! Yea right, like there's going to be a beach left. Hopefully she won't mind sunbathing in front of the lava flows at the bottom of a 10,000 ft crevasse. I wonder if Banana Boat makes a PF 7000?

Truthfully, I'm pretty pumped for December 21st. If you check your facts, the Mayans didn't predict 12.21.12 would be the end of the world, but the beginning of a new "cycle." There are some pretty cool astrological occurrences that also coincide with this date; some of which only happen every few thousand years. More importantly, this date is a symbol. Not of the end of the world, but the end of the world as we know it, and to quote Michael Stipe, "I feel fine" about that. I think we can all agree the old world could use an overhaul.

In a nutshell, we are about to enter a time where the feminine energy of the world will start to balance with the masculine energy. Don't worry men, you're not about to grow breasts and start menstruating--at least I don't think. It just means that, as human beings, we are going to cultivate the part of ourselves that is more compassionate, more nurturing, more spiritual, and more understanding. As an added bonus, we might even stop drinking out of milk containers and leaving the toilet seat up. Of course giving up football is not an option, but as we've all seen on Facebook, the women have become just as good at insulting your team and your mother as the men. Yet another sign that the Mayans knew what they were talking about. The masculine and feminine energy is balancing before our very eyes.

The planet has been tilted in favor of the male dominated ego for so long that we think of it as normal, but personally, I welcome a shift to the other side. Not all the way mind you, as I would look terrible in heels, but I'd like to see the pendulum settle somewhere in the middle. It's been stuck at 11 o' clock for a long time. It's time to let the women have some fun for a change.

Things rarely change in one day here on Planet Earth, but that's why December 21st is more of a symbol--much like Woodstock was a symbol the the 1960s. The perfect storm of events that took place in the 60s--with war and equal rights being the centerpiece--is not totally unlike what's going on today. I can't remember a time in my life when people were so polarized by politics, religion, and current events. But I see this as growth, not deterioration. The information age has provided us all with different perspectives to life's greatest questions in a nanosecond, and this is changing everything rapidly; faster than any time in history. Old ideologies that used to take generations just to evolve are now changing overnight, as the sharing of ideas and points of view from around the globe chips away at the concrete block of human thought. Finally the light is getting in.

All growth is not without struggle. Humans don't usually embrace change, and the ones who are the most entrenched into the old ways of seeing and doing things will struggle the most. But I've learned from my own experience that hardship can sometimes produce miracles. As I watched my wife during 16 hours of a rough labor I couldn't help but think, "Does it really have to be this painful for her?" I realized that every aspect of life has it's yin and it's yang, and as painful and violent as childbirth can be, there is nothing more beautiful than the birth of that child and holding it for the first time. This is the ultimate symbol of duality, the beginning of life itself.

So think of 12.21 as the birth of something, not the end of something. We may be having a few collective contractions right now, and after the recent election some of you might even be calling for an epidural, but it's time to settle in and get comfy. A new age is about to be born and we're the ones who are going to have to raise it. It's time to treat all humans beings from all over the planet with more love, compassion, and understanding, because we're all in this together. We're each like individual cells in the great human body, and if we don't work together the body will succumb to disease and whither away. It's not about us and them, there's only us.


 Enjoy the holidays everyone! Happy New Year to all of you, and have a Very Merry End of the World!!