Posted by yxibow on January 18, 2009, at 0:27:43 [reposted on January 19, 2009, at 3:31:28 | original URL]
In reply to Re: 2012 - The End Of The World???, posted by SLS on January 17, 2009, at 21:49:43
> I like the R.E.M. lyric:
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> "It's the end of the world as we know it."
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> This happens each second.
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> Incredibly optimistic.
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> - Scott
Or World Leader Pretend. Curious, REM was one of the first groups I listened to besides U2.On a more somber level, I think that Everybody Hurts is a song to encourage people to believe that despite what you think, not everyone is actually always happy even if they seem all smiles and without affliction, and not to let go of the world.
2012 -- Well lets see, London will be having the Olympics. Obama sweeps a second term and Palin buys Russia on Ebay with the budget of Alaska. Plugin electric cars are just beginning to come into fashion. The worldwide recession has started to thaw. Iran's nuclear reactors are secretly destroyed. The UN monitoring mission to Iraq starts to begin. Yes, storms, freezing temperatures, and hot spots are seen around the world.
I mean anything is a scenario.
But why create scenarios if they are just going to hurt you? Its like poking yourself with a bobby pin to see if you're alive. Jan's comment about the news is something that I've encountered in therapy. Okay, we turn on the news, or these days read our local paper online, but is it necessary to read every horrible thing and make what we perceive as our misery worse?
My head is always full of scenarios, self-created disasters -- global warming, but at some point.. I'm not Atlas, I don't hold up the world. I have to focus on my life and my recovery, to the best of my ability, yes, with my passion for the environment but remembering that I can't save the world all the time, I have to save myself first to be strong enough to.
And there's good news too. I'm surprised nobody that I know in NY or anyone has ever mentioned the "Miracle on the Hudson" yet. The skilled pilot who made what is basically considered almost impossible in aeronautics, a dead stick glide of a jet plane on water.Let us toast to those things.
-- Jay
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