Top Sites Tuesday Meme – Thought(s) of the Day On Tuesday

Cool meme this Tuesday – so I’m joining!

I’ve got the saying ‘May you live in interesting times!’ running in my head. It’s supposed to be this old Chinese saying or curse (spoken in the mode of ‘Confucious says‘), but Chinese people I know say it ain’t from them really … and google tells me that it’s actually from “U-Turn” a sci-fi short story by Duncan Munro. Well, you learn something everyday.

Anyway, I was just watching the History Channel, and they had this program up all about 2012. Maybe it was prompted by the movie 2012, but they were citing all sorts of stuff from Nostradamus, to the Mayans, to the Egyptians, to the Freemasons, etc. Supposedly, Dec 21, 2012 is the tipping point for planet-wide upheavals as related to a cosmic phenomenon called the ‘Galactic Alignment‘ (where our sun will align with the center of the Milky Way galaxy). Sounds like a script straight from the SyFy channel, no wonder Hollywood made a movie… at any rate, they say interesting times are up ahead. The world as we know it will never be the same again.

But interesting times are here now. I’ve got a friend from the Philippines who experienced being stranded on the roof for hours waiting for rescue while flood waters rose alarmingly. I’ve seen the video of that hotel in Taiwan just tilt and collapse in the height of a storm. I could go on and on. And it’s not just natural disasters, we’ve got war, swine flu, global warming, etc etc (just take your pick). And through it all, life goes on. Even in the most inhospital regions of Antarctica and beneath volcanic lava lakes (I learned that from the Discovery Channel).

And so the lesson I take from this? Thank goodness for cable… or we wouldn’t know anything… lol … Sorry, I was trying to think of something profound to say, but nothing came out. Life. Just. Is. ya know?

P.S. Before leaving my page, take a break and listen to ‘Trouble Is A Friend‘ by Lenka. It’s a really cool song, and relevant to my Thought of the Day. Really. It is.

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