It's now 11:11 a.m. GMT on Dec. 21, 2012

Well, the Mayan calendar has officially ended.

Perhaps we should be selling "I survived the Mayan calendar" tee shirts?

Were the Mayan's Wrong?
No, the Mayan's were not wrong. Their calendar ended exactly at the date and time it was supposed to. Similarly, our Gregorian calendar for 2012 will end precisely at midnight on December 31, 2012.

So what went wrong?  Nothing. The problem was the human beings who made a faulty interpretation. They said that at the end of the Mayan Calendar that the world would end. What actually occurred was the current cycle ended.

Cycles have specific beginning and endings. So the cycle ended. Other cycles in our lives include the phases of the moon, the seasons and so on. The end of a cycle is not the end of the world. It is an event that marks the beginning of the next cycle.

Will the world end? Of course the world will end. We simply do not know precisely when.

Will the future be better or worse? Yes, it will be both. There will be better times and there will be difficult times.

My Point? We don't have a new Mayan Calendar because no Mayan has created one. Saying the world ends when a piece of paper ends a date trails is about the same as saying the world will end when I burn my checkbook.

My Suggestion?
Deal with the things we can and should deal with. Watch less TV and spend less time on the internet. Take care of our personal business, develop ourselves and get critical thinking skills. Don't expect someone else to make things happen.  Plan for our death and celebrate our life.