This is another concept that constantly kept me from sleeping when I was a kid. In school, learning about the cosmos and just how small we are always terrified me. The idea that our little blue marble of a planet is flying around the universe at thousands and thousands of miles an hour, all while all sorts of debris is pinging around slamming into planets, stars die and explode annihilating entire solar systems, and black holes eat up anything they touch including space itself, it gave me nightmares. When I was in middle school we were just on the cusp of 2012, and all the students were talking about the Mayan calendar and how stupid it was that people believed the world would end. I wasn’t ever convinced of that, but there was always that “what if” thought in the back of my mind. Now, we’re all still here, and eventually I had to get over my fear of what I do not control, and if anything it gave me a better understanding of apocalyptic thinking. But on the topic of doomsday prepping, a little preparation for extreme events isn’t a bad thing. You just can’t let these things control your life.
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Wondering when the end could come is something you definitely shouldn't let control your life, but seeing how the Aztec were capable of so many things with the lack of resources and technology can make you think that maybe they had something that allowed them to figure those things out. 11 years past their doom's day prediction there's great relief in the fact they were wrong.
ReplyDeleteI also used to think about this topic all the time as a kid. I still do sometimes as a young adult too. As soon as I read the first sentence of your post and thought about what used to scare me I thought of 2012. Then as I kept reading I realized you mentioned it in your post too. It's interesting to me that when we are young we are so susceptible to the things we see and hear around us. Most of the time we don't even realize how much these things effect us subconsciously.
ReplyDeleteI remember the day in 2012 when "the world was going to end". I actually wanted to stay home from school because I was so scared what was going to happen. Obviously nothing happened but there was a really bad rainstorm that day and I vividly remember my bus shaking and hydroplaning while on the way to school and I thought it was all over.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I was also terrfied that the World would end in 2012. Though this sounds extremely silly, I would get relieved when I watched commericials for Raymour and Flannagan because they offered financing up until 2013-2014. To a young me, that meant the World would not cease to exist in 2012. Also tangibly related, but I remember my mom came home from the nail salon one day in 2015 and one of the tech's advised her to go home and spend time with loved ones because she believed in some Christian preacher (?) predicition the world was going to end that day.
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