In 2012, various predictors of doom were so certain that Earth had reached its last lap. In 1986, a comet was supposed to hit and destroy the world; in 1970, it was predicted that we would be in an Ice Age by this time. Well, it’s 2023 and here we are.

Last month, as if current events weren’t newsworthy enough, a new inauspicious story arose: atomic scientists reminded us of the Doomsday Clock which they have now shifted to 90 seconds to midnight - a clock that represents Earth’s survival specifically with nuclear war, with ‘midnight’ symbolizing the apocalypse. This same clock has had its minute hand manually reset a total of 25 times. It moves back and forth depending on the agreed climate of world events.

In the timeline I gave in the initial paragraph, notice how the predictors had negative expectations for Earth and humanity - and those are just a few out of so many. The dystopian picture that is almost constantly being painted and re-painted, makes me wonder why not enough seem to see a positive outlook for the world’s future. I think we need to balance out predictors of doom with predictors of wonders. We really can’t keep doing this to ourselves, creating nightmarish situations that no one truly knows will occur or not. After all, no matter how bad a situation is, there will be a gray area, a positive side, a light at the end of the tunnel - but seemingly few of the predictors of Earth’s doom seem interested in talking about that. Why?

We continue to hold on to dear life, having faith that all will be well despite what we’re being told by people who have decided to run with the narrative of destruction. The defect of this narrative is that there are people out there who may hear it and feel a sense of overwhelming trepidation for something that, until proven, is all but a conjecture. Not to take away the credit of all the experts who responsibly tell us their hypotheses backed with facts!! For some reason, those are the experts that we don’t hear too much about.

The positive part about the effect of what we’re being fed by the media and all the estimations of what might happen, is that we keep moving forward. Even if the world is ending, we should hold on to now and all the blessings that come with it, we shouldn’t ever stand still waiting for the apocalypse. After all, que sera, sera (what will be, will be).

Jeremiah 29: 11

Until the next one,

-C