It was not a bad year. But it just seemed that way.. That does not mean there were any overtly bad things that actually took place, but it was the overall lack of good..
Massive scares took place early on when a meteor almost hit Russia–the explosion was so fierce that it shook buildings and injured people.. From that to the strange days of government shutdowns and the wild world of a health care website that didn’t work.. It just did not seem right in ‘13.
Maybe it was the year. Maybe 2013 brought with it some unlucky times…
We beat the odds back in ’12 when the Mayan Calender did not spell doom. So we paid the price with a lackluster and mediocre time in 2013..
The Boston bombing this year rattled nerves and killed innocent people. A young child was among the dead.. It was a tragic and horrendous act.. And in the aftermath, an entire city got locked down while police freely broke into homes searching for a teenager bomber that later was shot in the throat but lived ..
The world still seems weary.. The economy seems to be getting better on paper, but in reality there is no hope for too many. Gas prices virtually stayed the same, but it just seemed like they have gone up exponentially. And we did not get embroiled into a war (almost) but warfare is so widespread you’d think it’s going out of style..
The world so desperately wanted a hero in 2013 that it chose to applaud Vladimir Putin for hedging off a Syrian war. Of course it was while he had a Pussy Riot behind bars.
A Cardinal became a Pope in 2013. He chose the name Francis. And his actions celebrating Peter the Roman seemed way too eerily close to the Prophecy of the Popes..
Malala told Obama to stop killing innocent people with drones. The media ignored it.. Perhaps nothing got worse in 2013–but it did not seem to get better. Little attention was paid to Fukushima. Little attention was given to really important news.. instead we were given Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. We were fed a steady diet of pop culture of doom, gloom, tongues, and salivia..
Nothing was as it seemed in 2013.
We are weary from a few bad months.
Here’s hoping ’14 brings with it some good, some bad.. but just some of the typical. You don’t have to tell me. It’s not going to happen.
That is how things worked in ’13..
