I'm starting to wonder where I've been . . . the 2012 buzz that I've just recently tuned into has certainly been around for a while. Groups that believe in 2012 have been stockpiling supplies and building comet proof dwellings for several years now. . .So why am I just now catching on? I managed to miss the presentation by the history channel pertaining to the ancient Mayan doomsday prophecy, and I had no idea a major film had been released until well after it hit the slightly reduced DVD racks at Walmart.

Where on earth have I been?

Living my life, I guess. I've been doing what millions of other people do every day. Going to work, going back home, eating, sleeping, breathing. . .just living each day very much as if I expect life as I know it to go on forever.

Except as I delve more and more deeply into current 2012 research, I'm beginning to realize that life can change in an instant, and everything about the way I am living life today on this planet can end in little more than a blink of the eye.

It's kind of like being an ant, scooting along the sidewalk on his way back to his ant hill, engrossed in his world of cracks and crumbs and pebbles and wayward blades of grass, and then suddenly a huge foot steps down seemingly out of nowhere, crushing the ant hill and changing the what is left of the ant colony's way of life abruptly. . .except that the foot didn't really appear out of nowhere. It had existed somewhere out there for a while, stepping . . . stepping . . . steadily approaching it's rendezvous with that ant hill . . .

We are a bit like that ant - a bit player in the enormity of the universe. The "shoe" that may suddenly step out of the heavens interrupting our lives won't really appear out of nowhere - it's out there even now, as the cosmos orchestrates the perfect alignment for creating the change that is ever present in this universe. Most of the time, the "footsteps" fall elsewhere. Every now and then, though, this earth is right in the way.

This is what the ancient Mayans saw in their 2012 prophecy. Planet Earth is on a collision course with destiny. Will December 21, 2012 be the day that all the possibilities fall precisely into place and life as we know it is ended?

It does make me wonder about tomorrow. . .