2 much 1 had 2 do today 2 blog! But 2
tempting a date 2 ignore. 1 that comes 1nc in a millennium.
Especially since the world is
going to end on the 21st, according to the Mayan calendar, and the pushy
pessimists who believe it. So this 1 is going to be about the end of the world.
A Dutchman has built an ark like
Noah’s, but it has gaming arcades and restaurants and a movie theatre. Nice way
to go, if you have to go.
How’d you like to greet the end
of the world? Putting up a good fight? In peace with all your loved ones
cuddled under the same duvet? Praying? Playing? Replaying a life well lived?
When I was small, we were just
Ma, Dad and me - a tiny little unit, and I always wanted us all to die
together. In a plane crash. So no one would be left to be sad, y’know. It didn’t
happen that way. Dad went first, and the sadness stays every single day.
But now, I think of the end of
the world, and I think of how many fantastic things I want to do. I want to
write that book (done! – you guys better buy it!). I want to live each moment
of my life (Doing that). It used to be important that I earn a lot of money,
but it seems insignificant now. I want
to leave the world a better place (not of much use since it’s going to go up in
smoke, but...) I mean I want to help people and animals and stand up for those
who can’t.
Nik at not yet 6, has a simpler,
if funnier, want. He’s been keen to leave behind his bone, so billions of years
later, someone finds his fossil and figures out a Nikosaur lived here.
How’d you want to meet the end of
the world? But hey, it’s not ending, okay? The world’s a lot tougher to end
than a video game. But if there’s a one-two-one-two-one-two-boom? Just give it
a think. And let me know.
