It was a year of madness.
Chaos..
While some predictable things did happen, the rest came as shocks to the system..
Weather instability all throughout the globe–mixed with strange rumbling beneath the crust and in the sky, as well.
Madness and mayhem in movie theaters, schools, parking lots, homes.. Shootings from sea to shining sea. Are we simply a more violent culture? Then again, when you see history and notice that the most violent school rampage took place before 1930, it redefines your perspective on this year’s handgun and military assault anarchy..
There was a big sinkhole this year. I bet you didn’t hear about that.
But there was a presidential election. We heard way too much about that..
It seemed like yesterday, and ages ago all at the same time, that the Olympics graced billions of TV sets. Unfortunately not as many showed for the actual seating in London, but the games were great.
Who were we this year?
We were worried.
Constantly wondering if the end was near.. and worrying so much about Armageddon that we forgot some basics.
The globe still spins here in late December. We made it through. So we’re fine.
The Mayan end times scenario was just a scenario that helped Coast to Coast AM and some DISCOVERY CHANNEL late night TV survive for the past ten years. I guess they can’t replay reruns asking if the world will end in ‘12 since it did not. Of course there will be a mighty large comet in the sky in November 2013–outshining the moon is a possibility. So maybe the end time will happen then..
But even though it wasn’t the end of time this year, there were sure moments when it felt it.
The madness that took place in a school in Connecticut only weeks before Christmas was horrific. It was disgusting.. it was thoroughly depressing. It really affected the nation’s national psyche. Also the media did a tragically poor job in reporting it, taking misinformation from Twitter and talking about it as though it was fact, naming the wrong guy as the shooter and blasting his photo across news wires, and misreporting that Adam Lanza’s mom was a teacher. Maybe we will forget those details of the day, but we surely will never forget the day when innocent 6-year-olds were gunned down by a madman..
While adults though the end was nigh, children didn’t know what hit them. 2012 was a tragically bad year for children.. From the United States to Syria, Russia and China, kids who deserve better got the worst of 2012. They laugh in the same language, and cry in it too. This year they cried a lot. Adults need to get themselves off the wasteland of fast-paced nonsense on gadgets and phones and realize that a generation could waste away if they have a few more years like 2012.. It did not seem like a day went on this year that was absent a heartbreaking story about a child being gunned down, bombed, droned, or wasted away by society as we knew it.
But it’s over now.
It’s gone. It came fast and seemed to go even faster.
From Mitt Romney’s mom jeans to moms carrying their children in battle, it’s all gone..
Perhaps not a moment too soon, either.
2012 was a year like all other years: It was mixed with wonderful stories of humanity at its finest and deplorable stories of creatures who cannot be human. This is the planet earth, after all. So what else is new..
Here’s to some memories of ’12, and the best for ’13. We just keep marching on, don’t we?
2012. Hope the Mayans start working on a new calender.
We made it.
