Of Mice and Men

The best laid plans . . .

It’s funny how your perspectives change. Picture this. You are living a busy life in an island city. There’s a very active social and political life going on. People are caught in their sports and politics. Everyone’s hustling to make a living. 

Then the volcano erupts and buries everyone. It happened a long time ago in Pompeii about 2000 years ago. All those worries and cares mean nothing when the volcano blows.

I think about Pompeii when tempted to get too caught up worrying about things like politics. Something bigger could happen tomorrow and all those squabbles would mean nothing. A large solar flare could end civilization in a matter of days. (the sun’s been pretty active right now, by the way.) Or heck, some idiot could start a nuclear war. Maybe a freaking asteroid could fall from flipping space and snuff out a good chunk of all life. 

Perspective. 

Then again, if the civilization ending bad thing doesn’t happen we still have to deal all the rest of the petty stuff. Some of that can got out hand, like the Nazis of WWII. So it’s not that those other things don’t matter, it’s just to keep in mind that there are even bigger fish out there in the sea.

-Sixbears