Chopping Wood and Carrying Water Amidst Mayans and Dragons
Chopping Wood and Carrying Water Amidst Mayans and Dragons
Published on January 24th, 2012 @ 01:39:00 pm , using 497 words, 772 views
Many of us have seen and heard warnings and portents for this year…even a disaster movie called “2012” came out recently. But who of us can really know if the Mayans have their timing right? At the turn of the last millennium and many other times in history there were predictions about the end of the world as well, and yet here we are, still.
But if these were really end times, would you change what you are doing today or your plans are for the coming few months? Would you give everything away and go into a meditation retreat or get a non-stop party started? Would you take that trip with your spouse to Fiji that you’ve always dreamed of, embark on a quest, apologize to your worst enemy, start a non-profit foundation, or…would you simply keep treating patients, taking care of your family, doing your best to live well each day?
Since none of us know the day our own personal Armageddon will arrive, it’s probably not a bad idea to think about these things, Mayan predictions notwithstanding, and live accordingly as much as we are able.
Not to wax too philosophical or lose my sense of humor, here are some of my personal goals in 2012…and hopefully beyond.
- I will make a new friend and reach out to at least one person I’ve not heard from in years. Why not?
- I will deal with real problems that crop up as best I can, but not carry around worries and fears about imagined ones. It's usually hard enough to deal with what actually does happen much less what could happen!
- I will take time for some exercise each day. It makes a difference no matter what else is going on.
- I will start each day with the most important things that need to be done.
- I will try harder to be courteous to everyone…it costs nothing and makes people happy.
- I will take on at least one technological learning curve in 2012 (since many of them don't last more than a year anyway). Yikes!
- I will tithe regularly. What goes around does come around.
- I will be up early enough to greet the sunrise more days than not. I read somewhere that if you get up 1/2 hour earlier each day, you get an extra 7.5 days per year. I could use an extra week here and there, couldn't you?
- I will reduce my personal possessions/projects/clutter by 10% or more by the end of the year. Whoa!
- I will remember to be here now. If I’m not here now, sure as shootin’ I won’t be there then!
I’ll let you know how I did a year from now if we’re all still here!
Whenever the world ends for you, what do you want to know that you did-learned- shared-gave-loved-created-released to the best of your ability? Don’t wait! Don’t die wondering! I wish everyone a happy, productive, meaningful, fun and funny, lively, bubbly, zingy, roaring, powerful, and best-year-ever Year of the Dragon!
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Thanks, Honora...very good thoughts indeed. Thanks for sharing and don't mind if I borrow... :D 
I love it. Is this not the point? And yet it occurs to me that the shift that is 2012 is well underway and all around us - so much so that indeed, many may not recognize it in the same way that fish do not recognize water. And what is that shift? It seems to me it has everything to do with the riddle of our human empowerment. Is choice actually choice if one does not recognize it as such? The new age would have everyone know that 'you create your own reality.' To be sure there is something poignant and important in this statement. Yet it is more accurate to acknowledge that one can only ever co-create one's reality. No one can make the sun come up in the west tomorrow simply from positive thinking. How therefore does one balance this paradox - viz. that humans have as yet no clear grasp of the extent to which we create our individual / collective reality; while simultaneously all are ruled by the law of our mortality and the certainty that humans alone know and cannot deny; namely that we and everyone and everything we have known will one day die and be erased like a passing cloud. The Maya prophecy is - of course - best understood metaphorically. The 'end of time' may indeed be the tolling of a bell that announces the end of our dallying indecision as to how we will or will not acknowledge our common humanity and the now obvious fact that - nations and races aside - we are indeed all on one planet. Lovely. This is after all the very song that mythology and even (once upon a time) organized religions have sought to play since the beginning of human culture's memory.
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