People will often come up with all sorts of reasons to avoid spending money. There are probably folks right now putting off calling the garage door repairman to fix the off track garage door or get a new battery for the automatic garage door opener because they are not sure whether to believe that the supposed end of the 36,000 year Mayan calendar in 2012 of the Christian Era calendar might really be the end of the world.
But apparently, from recent news reports about an upcoming book, it looks as if there has been an error discovered and the supposed end of the Mayan calendar as originally calculated may be off as much as one hundred years. In fact, it may have already passed.
The thing is, there are always apocalyptic visions and predictions where someone somewhere is reading the tea leaves or the heavens and stars or the Tarot or Runes or maybe even the Magic 8 Ball to determine that the end of the world is right there around the corner no wait it’s the next corner or the next corner after that.
Now, there are always going to be events that happen around the world that someone will interpret as the end of the world. One example was the focus on the Year 2000 potential computer programming problems. After the calendar flipped to 2000, there were not may problems but that is most likely due to the emphasis on fixing potential problems prior to the calendar flip.
But because there are always going to be problems and there are always going to be omens and portends there really are no excuses to put off getting those garage door repairs completed. Delaying necessary maintenance, whether for the garage door, the rooftop, the plumbing or anything else is usually a recipe for further and greater problems later on. People will always come up with the reasons to avoid spending money but the avoidance is the genesis of the saying “penny wise and pound foolish.” By not investing a little bit when a problem is first discovered and putting it off again and again, the problems will only grow and grow.
So folks just need to go ahead and relax. The world is not likely to be ending in just over two years (December 20, 2012 was the calculated end of the Mayan calendar compared to the modern era calendar). Life will go on. Oh the world will eventually end, just probably not quite that soon and when it does, oh well. As the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy put it, “Don’t Panic.”
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