What if…The World Real Did End Today?

Sure people have been predicting the end of the world for 1000s of years, and no one has got it right.  Each time when the predicted time draws near the reaction by the majority of the population is the same:  disbelief, doubt, mocking humor and completely warranted skepticism…after all everyone who has ever made that prediction has been wrong.  But deep down, and I mean deep deep, down in all of us isn’t there a little bit of fear…fear of the unknown and of the answer to the question we all secretly ask ourselves “what if it’s true?”

And pretend for a moment that it wasn't just the ramblings of some crack pot, Bible thumbing, crazy, attention seeking preacher…and it was true…that the world was going to end.  Now ask yourself what would you do.  Some undoubtedly would pray, while others lived it up in unprecedented fashion.  Others would just go about the same routine as they always would, their lives unchanged.  But most people…most would go out and spend their last moments with the ones they loved, with their mothers and fathers, their daughters and sons…their husbands and wives…their friends.  People would live their last day doing what they loved and being surrounded by the ones they loved…because in the end they would realize nothing else matters.

Now as I sit here and think about the answer to the rhetorical question “what if the world was coming to an end”...in finding the answer I am left with, and will leave you with, another question: “Why don’t we live each day like the world was ending?”