So this is it. 2012. The year everyone has been waiting for, the year that has been set in stone for millennia, the year that the Mayan culture prophesized as the end, but then again there’s a good chance that they just ran out of space when making a calendar, so whatever.
As for me, 2011 has proved itself to be a year of reflection, but more importantly a year of learning. What was it that I learned you ask? Well, I learned that when we were little kids and just couldn’t wait to grow up and “get older”, we were really disillusioned as to what that would entail.
First off, when I was young I thought I would have a really cool job, doing really cool things, and don’t get me wrong I used to…I mean I worked in radio for over a decade. But then things change, people get laid off…LOTS of people get laid off especially in the radio world and alas, terrestrial radio is a dying industry, right along side of print media and many other things we thought would always be around that technology has begun to advance us past needing people for.
So now after being laid off from the cool job, now I sit in my corporate cubicle based job, glad to have the paycheck (and a good paycheck at that with a very good company) but there are times that I miss the fun job I used to have. Sure I was stressed out a lot, sure there are a few people I wanted to kill…okay, maybe kill is a strong word, how about cause injury to in a very severe way, but in general I miss it none the less. Not what I imagined grown up life to be.
Another thing I didn’t plan on as a kid or any of us did for that matter, having your health bottom out on you. I mean when you were a kid and couldn’t wait to get older, you don’t think to yourself in a million years that the reality life deals you. So after tests and medications and more tests you get smacked with the reality of “Awesome, diagnosed with a spastic colon at age 36? THIS TOTALLY ROCKS!” Yeah, that’s what I thought life would bring me when I was young. I mean seriously, that was definitely not part of the package I thought I was signing up for.
You really can’t help but laugh, if you couldn’t do that…hell it would just make you cry. Each and every last one of us thought our lives would turn out so much differently than they did. I mean, we knew we’d grow up and have to work and pay bills, but never did you think you would hear yourself exclaim, “When I was young I remember when gas was under a dollar a gallon” and in reality it WAS when I was 16, man those were the days (and the reality is those days were 20 years ago, which is shocking)
So what lies ahead for us in 2012? Who knows. Will it be the end? I doubt it.
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