As I sit here and write this post, I can’t help but wonder
what the point is. I mean, if I believe
the apocalypse is actually going to happen today, then why go through all the
effort to write something no one is even going to have the chance to read?
It’s simple really.
Because my friends, Shannon
Lawrence, The Warrior Muse and Chuck
Farch of Apocalypse Now, are hosting the Choose Your Own Apocalypse
Blogfest! So why not go out with a
bang? Ahem…sorry.
That’s right. The
5000 year Mayan calendar has come to an end and we are all doomed to die a
fiery death. Er…WHAT? Who said it has to be fiery? According to Chuck and Shannon:
While
many people think the world really is going to end on Friday, the 21st, most of
them can't agree on HOW. Will it be an alien invasion? Zombies? Collision with
a mighty meteor? The super flu? Solar flares? Oh my, there are so many ways the
world could conceivably end, but what we want to know is how you, yes YOU,
think it will happen.
The rules are simple:
The rules are simple:
1.
Choose your apocalypse
3.
Tell us how you prepared for your survival amongst everyone else's demise
4.
Describe your apocalypse and how it's going down
5.
Make sure the badge is displayed on your blog
6.
Visit your fellow survivors and see how their world ended
Other than that, make it whatever you'd like!
Well, I had all kinds of silly ideas run through my head, the most self-indulgent of
which was the earth being sucked into nothingness by the black hole that is my
book. Nyuk, nyuk, just kidding.
Honestly, I’m not really a pessimistic person,
so my gut tends to lead me toward a rosier kind of ending.
Yep, I’m a person of great faith, and while I know the Book
of Revelations talks about earthquakes, plague, pestilence, fire, and all that,
I believe, if the world were to come to an end tomorrow, that God, in His
infinite kindness and love, would allow the world and all the beings He created,
to pass in an instant of blinding light, of pure love and total understanding,
a moment where we are not afraid, when we are surrounded by loved ones who have
passed before and all those we now hold dear.
Sure, it might happen in an explosive nanosecond much like
Creation, but we will be oblivious, totally unaware of any physical violence as
our souls merge together into an army of empathetic consciousness.
How’s that for optimism?
How do you believe the world will end?
