It's hard to believe that we've already reached 2020. It's certainly a lot easier to say "twenty twenty" than "two thousand and twenty," isn't it?
There's certainly a lot of things to look forward to in the year that is not only even, but also ends with a nice, round 0. And, it has two of the same number in it! But, there's still more coming your way.
If you were born in 1980 and you like perfect squares, you're waiting for your 45th birthday, which will happen in 2025 (452)!
In 2038, some computers will be unable to count the amount of seconds since 1970 (which is what they use for calculating the current time), so they'll quite literally run out of time. If your computer is from 1970, though, it's a surprise that it's still working in
Don't you find that that happens to you sometimes? When there's a change-over from one month or year to the next, you find yourself writing "November 3.... it was 31 yesterday, and there's no 32nd day, so what is it?......! It's December! (go back and erase the November and write December 1)".
If it doesn't, you must be really great at thinking ahead, so I'll tell you about a date further into the future: 4000.
"What? 4000? How am I even expected to know what's going to happen then, let alone understand it?"
You can't know what's going to happen in 4000 - I don't even know if it's going to rain tomorrow. Before 4000 arrives, we could decide to renovate our calendar system, or we could destroy half of the planet with our huge volumes of carbon emissions.
Or, a miracle (I'm calling it that whether it's good or bad for me) could occur, and for reasons that no one understands, we're all gone.
But why are we even spending time thinking about 4000? I'm not going to be here at that time, and even if I was, the world as I know it would most likely be gone. And if we have no way of knowing what's going to happen, we have to try and be prepared for anything we can expect, but also live as if each day could be our last.
In that case - when we're not sure whether there's a bright future ahead of us or everything will be gone tomorrow - there's only one thing left.
Mercy.
Mercy.
Mercy.
~Liya
You make some really good points about the future and how we need to live our lives in the present. Very well spoken.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading it! It's sometimes hard to make decisions based on the amount of time we have. If we live like we have 90 years left, we'll make long-term plans, but we'll also procrastinate some things. But if we live like we have 3 days left, we'll say, "I don't need to do that - I'll be gone before it becomes important." So, you need a little bit of both.
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