When I was 6 years old rumors broke that the world was going to end. My cousin and I could hardly wait. We made up lists of preferred ways for it to happen. Maybe an earthquake, or a big tidal wave, my cousin wanted a large comet. On the day that the world was supposed to end, we go to the seaside because it’s the only open space we can find near, and waited. By late afternoon we went home, disappointed that nothing happened. Since then, every time someone tells me that the world is going to end – I simply don’t believe it.
As I mature and begun to value life, family and the future, fear creeps in whenever rumors of such things resurfaced. I can remember way back December of 1999, there has been some kind of panic and anxiety among people with hearsays about digital alterations in the banking sector and worldwide blackout come year 2000 was schemed into the mainstream media. That was called the y2k bug, and it does changed the holiday spirit of cheer into fear. I can see people lined up in bank/ mall ATM to withdraw, some were on panicked buying to stores for essentials like food and water. Only to find out a big fat LIE. It was at the end of January 2000, that I got a sigh of relief. No doomsday, and absolutely not at the advent of my graduation day. A totally different reaction I made when I was a child sitted in the seaside.
Now, another stories of how humanity should end. This time, I'm not in the seaside expecting it with excitement, nor trembling like a dreamer grieving over crushed dreams. I am in a hospital working as frontliner, I can no longer think of end of times. I only see people surviving. Like me.
Some might think, with the technology and ingenuity, in the succeeding years we’re going to solve the entire problem the world has to offer. Maybe perhaps we have enough brains, enough talent, enough imagination that gives us enough power to withstand and survive. However, I wonder if the people in power can have that "enough" power to solve the end of times?
After so many years, from that day of our ridiculous assumptions in the seaside, I finally fathomed that the end is inevitable. And despite of the technologies and the geniuses, still no one knows when and no human can stop. Some people might initiate and device a plan but no one can be certain. Rumors broke about depopulation, microchips transplanted on humans through vaccination, one world currency, and etc. These might looks like an end coming so near.
How are you going to embark on it?
I will still one day sit at the beach and just wait, putting my confidence in Someone so certain about my ending.
"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted amomg the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." - Psalm 46:10
Turn the music on and listen to this song *Prince of Peace," by Hillsong United, because I so love this line of that song.
" And my soul will know, when fear comes knocking, there You'll be my guide.
When day breeds trouble, there You'll hold my heart, come storm or battle
God I know Your peace will meet me there. "
Anyway, let us live life with the NOW, and cherish it with faith, hope and LOVE, because
"Perfect love, casteth out fear." - 1 John 4:18
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Greetings friend. I too came to hear that lie but refused to believe and thought the world evolves but does not end.