The news that NFL quarterback, Brett Favre, is returning to football shouldn?t be a huge surprise.? He?s flirted with retirement for the past four years and every time decided to return to the field.
The sense of deja vu I feel from Favre?s return was recently repeated when I learned that some high school students believe the world will end in the year 2012.? They?ve heard that the Mayan calendar predicts that our planet is history in less than two years.
They may be too young to remember that the world was supposed to have ended in the year 2000.? It was a big deal back then.? Our use of computers was supposed to have resulted in a curse that would bring civilization to its knees.? A bunch of other bad stuff was predicted to happen as we left the year 1999.
10 years later, I?m still waiting for a chance to showcase my End of the World bartering skills.
Predictions of the world ending are nothing new as they occur a lot through history. It?s very easy to fall in the trap of thinking pessimistically about the future.? You see a world where things appear to be ?worse than ever,? bad behavior is on the rise, and some kind of cosmic payback must be on the horizon.
The world ending is overrated.? Every generation faces challenges and every generation may also lack a certain degree of perspective.? Perhaps it?s a fear of change or a need to give our days a greater sense of significance.? But in so many cases, what?s happened before, will happen again.? People get through the challenges.? But too often fear of change appears is our ongoing companion.
